Four Types of Calamity

15 Then Yahweh said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me,[fn] my heart would not be to this people. Send them away from my sight,[fn] and let them go out.

• 2 And then[fn] if they say to you, ‘Where shall we go?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Those who are destined for the plague, to the plague,
• and those who are destined for the sword, to the sword,
• and those who are destined for the famine, to the famine,
• and those who are destined for the captivity, to the captivity.” ’

3 “And I will summon[fn] over them four types of calamity,” declares[fn] Yahweh, “the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds[fn] of the air and the wild animals[fn] of the earth to devour and to destroy. 4 And I will make them a terror to all of the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, because of what he did in Jerusalem.

• 5 O Jerusalem, or who will show sympathy to you,
• or who will turn aside[fn]
• 6 [fn] Yahweh. “You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you,
• and I have destroyed you.
  • I am tired of becoming remorseful.
  • 7  I am bereaved.
• I have destroyed my people.
  • They did not turn back from their ways.
  • 8 [fn] will be more numerous before me than the sand of the seas. I have brought to them, against the mothers[fn] of young men,[fn]
• a destroyer at noon.
  • I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror.[fn]
  • 9  She gasps her breath.
• Her sun[fn] while still day.
  • She has been put to shame and disgraced.
• And the remainder of them I will give to the sword
  • [fn] their enemies,” [fn] Yahweh.