1490 - Jeremiah 15 part 1

 Jeremiah Chapter 15 part 1


The the Lord said to (Jeremiah), 


“Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me, pleading for these people, I wouldn’t help them. 


Away with them! 


Get them out of my sight! 


And, if they say to you, 


‘But where can we go?’ 


…tell them, 


‘This is what the Lord says:


“ ‘Those who are destined for death, will go to death;


…those who are destined for war, will go to war;


…those who are destined for famine, will go to famine;


…those who are destined for captivity, will go to captivity.’


“I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord. 


“I will send the sword, to kill, …the dogs, to drag away,  …the vultures, to devour, …and the wild animals, to finish up what is left. 


Because of the wicked things that Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an object of horror, to all the kingdoms of the earth.


“Who will feel sorry for you, Jerusalem?


Who will weep for you?


Who will even bother to ask… how you are?


You have abandoned me, and turned your back on me,” says the Lord.


“Therefore, I will raise my fist, to destroy you.


I am tired of always giving you another chance.


I will winnow you, like grain at the gates of your cities,  and I will take away the children, that you hold so dear.


I will destroy my own people,

because they refuse to change their evil ways.


There will be more widows, than the grains of sand on the seashore.


At noontime, I will bring a destroyer …against the mothers of young men.


I will cause anguish and terror, to come upon them suddenly.


The mother, of seven, grows faint and gasps for breath; her sun has gone down, while it is still day.


She sits childless now, disgraced and humiliated.


And I will hand over, all those who are left, …to be killed by the enemy.


I, the Lord, have spoken!”


The Holy Bible

New Living Translation 


Jeremiah 15:1–9


Praise be to God!


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