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Chapter 15
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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. |
2
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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. |
3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. |
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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. |
10
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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
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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. |
12
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Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? |
13
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Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the
spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even
in all thy borders. |
14
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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? |
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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. |
20
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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. |
21
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And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked,
and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. |
