Then said the Lord to me, Though Moshe and Shemu᾽el were to stand before me, my mind could not incline towards this people: send them out of my sight, and let them depart.

And it shall come to pass, if they say to thee, Whither shall we depart? then thou shalt tell them, Thus 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.

And I will appoint over them four kinds of ravagers, says the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

And I will make them into a horror for all the kingdoms of the earth, on account of Menashshe the son of Yeĥizqiyyahu king of Yehuda, for that which he did in Yerushalayim.

For who shall have pity upon thee, O Yerushalayim, or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

Thou hast forsaken me, says the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary of relenting.

And I will winnow them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them, upon the mothers of the young men, a spoiler at noonday: I have caused tumult and terrors to fall upon it suddenly.

She that has born seven languishes: she has fainted away; 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.

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast born me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent, nor have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

The Lord said, Have I not provided for thy welfare; have I not made the enemy entreat thy intercession, in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

Shall iron break iron from the north, and brass.

Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

And I will cause thee to pass with thy enemies into a land which thou knowst not: for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.

O Lord, Thou knowst: remember me, and be mindful of me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in Thy long suffering: know that for Thy sake I have suffered insult.

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by Thy name, O Lord God of hosts.

I sat not in the assembly of the merrymakers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of Thy hand: for Thou hast filled me with indignation.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? wilt Thou be to me like a deceitful stream, like waters that fail?

Therefore thus says the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee back, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou bring out the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return to thee; but return not thou to them.

And I will make thee to this people a fortified wall of brass: 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, says the Lord.

And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.