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1Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go![#Ex 32.11, 12; 1 Sam 7.9; 12.23; 2 Kings 17.20; Jer 7.15; 10.20; Ezek 14.14, 20]
2And when they say to you, “Where shall we go?” you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord :[#Jer 43.11; Ezek 5.2, 12; Zech 11.9]
Those destined for pestilence, to pestilence,
and those destined for the sword, to the sword;
those destined for famine, to famine,
and those destined for captivity, to captivity.
3And I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord : the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy.[#Lev 26.16; Deut 28.26; 1 Kings 21.23, 24; Jer 7.33]
4I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what King Manasseh son of Hezekiah of Judah did in Jerusalem.[#Deut 28.25; 2 Kings 21.11ff; 23.26]
5Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
or who will bemoan you?
Who will turn aside
to ask about your welfare?
6You have rejected me, says the Lord ;[#Jer 6.11, 12, 19; 7.16, 24]
you are going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
I am weary of relenting.
7I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork[#Jer 5.3; 18.21; 51.2]
in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
they did not turn from their ways.
8Their widows became more numerous
than the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of youths
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon her suddenly.
9She who bore seven has languished;[#1 Sam 2.5; Isa 47.9; Jer 6.4; 21.7; 50.12; Am 8.9]
she has swooned away;
her sun went down while it was yet day;
she has been shamed and disgraced.
And the rest of them I will give to the sword
before their enemies, says the Lord .
10Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.[#Deut 23.19; Job 3.1; Jer 20.14]
11The Lord said: Surely I have intervened in your life for good; surely I have brought enemies upon you in a time of trouble and in a time of distress.[#Isa 41.10; Jer 39.11, 12; 40.4, 5; #15.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain; #15.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
12Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
13Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.[#Ps 44.12; Isa 52.3, 5; Jer 17.3]
14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn against you.[#Deut 32.22; Jer 16.13; 17.4]
15O Lord , you know;[#Ps 69.7–9; Jer 12.3; 20.12]
remember me and visit me,
and bring down retribution for me on my persecutors.
In your forbearance do not take me away;
know that on your account I suffer insult.
16Your words were found, and I ate them,[#Ps 119.72; Jer 14.9; Ezek 3.1–3]
and your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
O Lord , God of hosts.
17I did not sit in the company of merrymakers,[#Jer 16.8; Ezek 3.24, 25]
nor did I rejoice;
under the weight of your hand I sat alone,
for you had filled me with indignation.
18Why is my pain unceasing,[#Jer 14.3; 30.15; Mic 1.9]
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail.
19Therefore thus says the Lord :[#Jer 4.1; Ezek 22.26]
If you turn back, I will take you back,
and you shall stand before me.
If you utter what is precious and not what is worthless,
you shall serve as my mouth.
It is they who will turn to you,
not you who will turn to them.
20And I will make you to this people[#Isa 41.10; Jer 1.18, 19; 20.11]
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
but they shall not prevail over you,
for I am with you
to save you and deliver you, says the Lord .
21I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked[#Jer 20.13; 31.11]
and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.