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Chapter
15
- 15:1
- Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast
them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
- 15:2
- 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 are for death, to death; and such as are for the
sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the
famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
- 15:3
- 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.
- 15:4
- 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 that which he did in Jerusalem.
- 15:5
- For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall
bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
- 15:6
- 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.
- 15:7
- And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land;
I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since
they return not from their ways.
- 15:8
- 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 him to fall upon it suddenly,
and terrors upon the city.
- 15:9
- She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up
the ghost; her sun is gone down while 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.
- 15:10
- 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; yet every one of
them doth curse me.
- 15:11
- The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time
of evil and in the time of affliction.
- 15:12
- Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
- 15:13
- Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
- 15:14
- And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land
which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger,
which shall burn upon you.
- 15:15
- 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.
- 15:16
- 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.
- 15:17
- 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.
- 15:18
- Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth
to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and
as waters that fail?
- 15:19
- Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will
I bring thee again, 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.
- 15:20
- 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 am with thee to save thee and to deliver
thee, saith the LORD.
- 15:21
- 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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