Yahweh said what would happen to the people of Judah

15 Then Yahweh said this to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel could come back from their graves and and stand in front of me and plead with me for these Israeli people, I would not act mercifully [IDM] toward these people. I would tell you, ‘Send them away from me. Cause them to leave me!’ 2 And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’, tell them, ‘This is what Yahweh says:

The ones that I say must die, will die:

The ones that I say must die in wars [MTY], will die in wars.

The ones that I say must die from hunger, will die from hunger.

The ones that I say must be captured and taken to other countries, will be captured and taken to other countries.

3 I will send four things that will get rid of them: I will send enemy soldiers using swords to kill them. I will send wild dogs to drag away their corpses. I will send vultures to eat their corpses. And I will send other wild animals to eat what remains of their corpses. 4 Because of the wicked things that King Manasseh did in Jerusalem, I will cause people in all the kingdoms of the earth to be horrified about what will happen in Judah to my people.

5 You people of Jerusalem, no one will [RHQ] feel sorry for you.

No one will [RHQ] weep/cry for you.

No one will [RHQ] ask ◄how you are/if you are well►.

6 You people have abandoned me;

you have continued to walk away from me [DOU].

So, I will lift up my fist to smash you;

I will not act mercifully toward you any longer.

7 At the gates of your cities, I will scatter you like a farmer scatters the chaff from his grain by ◄winnowing it/throwing it up to allow the wind to blow the chaff away► [MET].

You, my people, have refused to turn away from your evil behavior.

So, I will get rid of you,

and I will even cause your children to be killed.

8 I will cause there to be more widows in Judah

than there are grains of sand on the seashore [HYP].

At noontime, when people will not be expecting it to happen, I will cause an enemy army to attack you,

an army that will destroy your young men and cause their mothers to weep.

I will cause you to suddenly experience great suffering/pain and become very terrified.

9 A woman who has seven children will become faint and ◄gasp for breath/be hardly able to breathe►;

it will be as though daylight will become darkness for her,

because most of her children will be dead,

and she will be disgraced and humiliated [DOU].

And her children who are still alive, I will enable your enemies to kill them.

That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.’ ”