The Divine Answer – Rejection and Doom

15 Then Jehovah said to me:

Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me,

Yet no learning of heart could I have for this people;

Away with them out of My sight – let them go.

2 When they ask thee where they shall go,

Then say to them, Thus saith Jehovah:

To death, those destined to death;

To the sword, those doomed to the sword;

To famine, those destined to famine,

To exile, those destined to exile.

3 And I, saith Jehovah, will set over them four kinds (of destroyers) – the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, the birds of the air to devour, and the beasts of the earth to destroy; 4 and I will make them an object of consternation to every kingdom in the world, in return for all the evil wrought in Jerusalem by Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah.

5 O Jerusalem, who will then pity thee?

Who will commiserate thee?

Who will go out of his way

To enquire how it fareth with thee?

6 Thou hast cast Me off, saith Jehovah,

Thou ever wentest backward;

So, weary at length of relenting,

I stretch out My hand to destroy thee.

7 With winnowing-fork I will winnow thee,

In every gate of the land.

I will make My people childless,

And destroy them because of their wickedness,

8 Their widows are more in number

Than the sand of all the seas.

A destroyer I will bring

Upon mother and suckling at noon-day;

I will bring of a sudden upon her

Agitation and dismay.

9 The mother of seven shall languish,

And she shall swoon away;

Her sun shall go down in the day-time,

Ashamed and abashed shall she be.

And the rest of them I will deliver

To the sword in the face of their foes.