Jeremiah 15:1–9

Yahweh Appoints Four Kinds of Doom

¹Then Yahweh said to me, “Even ^athough ^bMoses and ^cSamuel were to ^dstand before Me, My soul would not be ¹with this people; ^esend them away from My presence and let them go!

²“And it will be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘Thus says Yahweh:

“Those destined ^afor death, to death;

And those destined for the sword, to the sword;

And those destined for famine, to famine;

And those destined for captivity, to captivity.” ’

³“I will ^aappoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the ^bdogs to drag off, and the ^cbirds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and bring to ruin.

⁴“I will ^agive them over to be an example of terror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of ^bManasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

⁵“Indeed, who will ^aspare you, O Jerusalem,

Or who will ^bconsole you,

Or who will turn aside to ask about your well-being?

⁶“You who have ^aabandoned Me,” declares Yahweh,

“You keep ^bgoing backward.

So I will ^cstretch out My hand against you and bring you to ruin;

I am ^dtired of ¹relenting!

⁷“And I will ^awinnow them with a winnowing fork

At the gates of the land;

I will ^bbereave them of children; I will make My people perish;

^cThey did not ¹repent of their ways.

⁸“Their ^awidows will be more numerous before Me

Than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them, against the mother of a choice man,

A ^bdestroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly bring down on her

Anguish and terror.

⁹“She who ^abore seven sons languishes;

¹Her breathing is labored.

Her ^bsun has set while it was yet day;

She has been ^cshamed and humiliated.

So I will ^dgive over their survivors to the sword

Before their enemies,” declares Yahweh.