Jeremiah 15:5–11

⁵“Indeed, who will have ^apity on you, O Jerusalem,

Or who will ^bmourn for you,

Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

⁶“You who have ^aforsaken Me,” declares the Lord,

“You keep ^bgoing backward.

So I will ^cstretch out My hand against you and destroy you;

I am ^dtired of relenting!

⁷“I will ^awinnow them with a winnowing fork

At the gates of the land;

I will ^bbereave them of children, I will destroy My people;

^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 young man,

A ^bdestroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly bring down on her

Anguish and dismay.

⁹“She who ^abore seven sons pines away;

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 the Lord.

^10aWoe to me, my mother, that you have borne me

As a ^bman of strife and a man of contention to all the land!

I have not ^clent, nor have men lent money to me,

Yet everyone curses me.

¹¹The Lord said, “Surely I will ^aset you free for purposes of good;

Surely I will cause the ^benemy to make supplication to you

In a time of disaster and a time of distress.