¹ Then said the LORD to me, even 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 forward. ² And it will come to pass, if they say to you, Where will we go forward ? then you will tell them, So says 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 And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to kill, 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 will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will go aside to ask how you doest? ⁶ you have abandoned me, says the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; 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 on them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall on it suddenly, and terrors on the city. ⁹ She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day : she has been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD. ¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that you have 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 does curse me. ¹¹ The LORD said, Verily it will be well with your remnant ; truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. ¹² will iron break the northern iron and the steel? ¹³ Your wealth and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders. ¹⁴ And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land which you know not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which will burn on you. ¹⁵ O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering : know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke. ¹⁶ your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts. ¹⁷ I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation. ¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed ? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail? ¹⁹ Therefore so says the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you again, and you will stand before me: and if you take forward the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth: let them return to you; but return not you to them. ²⁰ And I will make you to this people a fenced brasen wall: and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD. ²¹ And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.