Jeremiah - Chapter 15 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, {cf15I yet} my mind {cf15I could} not {cf15I be} toward this people: cast {cf15I them} out of my sight, and let them go forth.
  • 2. And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as {cf15I are} for death, to death; and such as {cf15I are} for the sword, to the sword; and such as {cf15I are} for the famine, to the famine; and such as {cf15I are} for the captivity, to the captivity.
  • 3. And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
  • 4. And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for {cf15I that} which he did in Jerusalem.
  • 5. For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
  • 6. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
  • 7. And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave {cf15I them} of children, I will destroy my people, {cf15I since} they return not from their ways.
  • 8. Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused {cf15I him} to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
  • 9. She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while {cf15I it was} yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
  • 10. Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; {cf15I yet} every one of them doth curse me.
  • 11. The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee {cf15I well} in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
  • 12. Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
  • 13. Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and {cf15I that} for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
  • 14. And I will make {cf15I thee} to pass with thine enemies into a land {cf15I which} thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, {cf15I which} shall burn upon you.
  • 15. O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
  • 16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
  • 17. I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
  • 18. Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, {cf15I which} refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, {cf15I and as} waters {cf15I that} fail?
  • 19. Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, {cf15I and} thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
  • 20. And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I {cf15I am} with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
  • 21. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
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