Jeremiah 15:5–11

⁵“For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?

Or who will bemoan you?

Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?

^6jYou have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,

“You have ^kgone backward.

Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;

^lI am ²weary of relenting!

⁷And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land;

I will ^mbereave them of children;

I will destroy My people,

Since they ⁿdo not return from their ways.

⁸Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them,

Against the mother of the young men,

A plunderer at noonday;

I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them ^osuddenly.

⁹“She ^planguishes who has borne seven;

She has breathed her last;

^qHer sun has gone down

While it was yet day;

She has been ashamed and confounded.

And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword

Before their enemies,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah’s Dejection

^10rWoe is me, my mother,

That you have borne me,

A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole ³earth!

I have neither lent for interest,

Nor have men lent to me for interest.

Every one of them curses me.

¹¹The Lord said:

“Surely it will be well with your remnant;

Surely I will cause ^sthe enemy to intercede with you

In the time of adversity and in the time of affliction.