Judgment Must Come
1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even (A)though (B)Moses and (C)Samuel were to (D)stand before Me, My (a)heart would not be (b)with this people; (E)send them away from My presence and let them go!
2 And it shall be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Those destined (F)for death, to death;
And those destined for the sword, to the sword;
And those destined for famine, to famine;
And those destined for captivity, to captivity.”’
And those destined for the sword, to the sword;
And those destined for famine, to famine;
And those destined for captivity, to captivity.”’
3 I will (G)appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the Lord: “the sword to slay, the (H)dogs to drag off, and the (I)birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
4 I will (J)make them an object of horror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of (K)Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah’s Prayer and God’s Answer
Footnotes:
a.
Jeremiah 15:1: ['Lit ', soul]
b.
Jeremiah 15:1: ['Lit ', toward]
c.
Jeremiah 15:7: ['Lit ', turn back from]
d.
Jeremiah 15:9: ['Or ', She has breathed out her soul]
e.
Jeremiah 15:14: ['I.e. your possessions']
f.
Jeremiah 15:19: ['Lit ', as My mouth]
g.
Jeremiah 15:21: ['Lit ', palm]
Cross references:
F.
Jeremiah 15:2:
Jeremiah 14:12; Jeremiah 24:10; Jeremiah 43:11; Ezekiel 5:2; Ezekiel 5:12; Zechariah 11:9; Revelation 13:10