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Jeremiah 15
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Chapter 15
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Yahweh said to me, ‘Even if Moses and Samuel were standing in my presence I could not warm to this people! Drive them out of my sight; away with them!
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And if they ask you, “Where shall we go?” tell them this, “Yahweh says this: Those for the plague, to the plague; those for the sword, to the sword; those for famine, to famine; those for captivity, into captivity!”
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Four kinds of doom I consign them to: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the birds of heaven and beasts of earth to devour and to destroy.
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I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for his misdeeds in Jerusalem.
The horrors of war
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‘Who is there to pity you, Jerusalem, who to grieve for you, who to pause and ask how you are?
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You yourself have rejected me – it is Yahweh who speaks – you have turned your back on me; so I have stretched my hand over you to destroy you. I am tired of relenting.
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And so I have winnowed them with a fork in the towns of their land. I deprive my people of children, I exterminate them since they refuse to leave their ways.
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Their widows have become more than the sand of the seas. On the mothers of young warriors I bring the destroyer in broad daylight. Suddenly I bring down anguish and terror on them.
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The mother of seven sons grows faint, and breathes her last. It is still day, but already her sun has set, shame and disgrace are hers…And the remainder of them I shall hand over to their enemies to be cut to pieces – it is Yahweh who speaks.’
The call of Jeremiah renewed
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Woe is me, my mother, for you have borne me to be a man of strife and of dissension for all the land. I neither lend nor borrow, yet all of them curse me.
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Truthfully, Yahweh, have I not done my best to serve you, interceded with you for my enemy in the time of his disaster, his distress?
15:15a You know I have!
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Can a man break iron, iron from the north, or bronze?
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‘Your wealth and your treasures I will hand over to plunder, as payment for all your sins throughout your territory.
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I will enslave you to your enemies in a country which you do not know, for my anger has kindled a fire that will burn you up.’
15:15b Yahweh, remember me, take care of me, and avenge me on my persecutors. Your anger is very slow: do not let me be snatched away. Realise that I suffer insult for your sake.
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When your words came, I devoured them: your word was my delight and the joy of my heart; for I was called by your name, Yahweh, God of Sabaoth.
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I never took pleasure in sitting in scoffers’ company; with your hand on me I held myself aloof, since you had filled me with indignation.
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Why is my suffering continual, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Do you mean to be for me a deceptive stream with inconstant waters?
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To which Yahweh replied, ‘If you come back, I will take you back into my service; and if you utter noble, not despicable, thoughts, you shall be as my own mouth. They will come back to you, but you must not go back to them.
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I will make you a bronze wall fortified against this people. They will fight against you but they will not overcome you, because I am with you to save you and to deliver you – it is Yahweh who speaks.
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I mean to deliver you from the hands of the wicked and redeem you from the clutches of the violent.’
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