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Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and
day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach,
with a very grievous blow.
18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and
if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the
priest go about into a land that they know not.
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Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul
lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and
there is
no healing for us? we looked for peace, and
there is
no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
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We acknowledge, O L
ORD
, our
wickedness,
and
the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
21
Do not abhor
us,
for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant
with us.
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Are there
any
among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens
give showers?
art
not thou he, O L
ORD
our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast
made all these
things.
CHAPTER 15
Then said the L
ORD
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.
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 L
ORD
;
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.
3
And I will appoint over
them four kinds, saith the L
ORD
: 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
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 L
ORD
, 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
them
of children,
I will destroy my people,
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
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
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 L
ORD
.
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.
11
The L
ORD
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.
12
Shall iron break
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