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Jeremiah 15

15 Then Yahweh said this to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel could come back from their graves and stand in front of me and plead with me for these Israelite people, I would not act mercifully toward these people. I would still tell you, ‘Send the people of Judah away from me. Let them go away!’ 2 And if they ask you, ‘Where should we go?’, then you must 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, 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, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, 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 feel sorry for you.

No one will weep for you.

No one will care enough to take the time to ask about your well-being.

6 You people have abandoned me;

instead of seeking me you have refused to obey me,

so, I will bring judgement upon you and destroy you as if I were bringing down my fist on you 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 throwing it up to allow the wind to blow the chaff away.

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

So, I will get rid of you,

and I will allow your enemies to kill your children.

8 I will cause there to be so many widows in Judah

that when I look at them it will seem as if they were more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore.

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 and become very terrified.

9 A woman who has seven children will become faint and gasp for breath;

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

because most of her children will be dead,

and she will be greatly humiliated.

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.’ ”

10 I said to my mother, “I am very sad;

I wish that you had not given birth to me;

everyone in this land opposes me and quarrels with me.

I am not a person who lends money to people and threatens to sue or harm them if they do not pay me back when they should,

and I am not a person who borrows money from others and then refuses to pay it back,

but everyone curses me.”

11 But Yahweh replied to me,

“Jeremiah, I will certainly deliver you for good purposes.

And at the times when your enemies encounter disasters and are distressed about them,

I will certainly cause them to come to you and plead with you to ask me for help.

12 Yahweh also told me to say to the people of Judah, “Your enemies, who are as strong as iron or bronze, will attack you from the north;

no one will be able to stop them.

13 I will give all the valuable possessions of your people as spoils of war to your enemies,

without them paying for it.

I will do this because of all the sins that they have committed throughout your country.

14 Then I will cause your enemies to force you to become their prisoners,

and take you to other lands where you have never been before,

and force you to become their slaves.

That will happen because I am extremely angry with your people;

my being angry is like a fire that will burn against you.”

15 Then I said, “Yahweh, you certainly know what is happening to me!

Please come and help me.

Punish those who are persecuting me.

Please do not continue to be patient with my persecutors

because if you are they will kill me.

Take notice of the fact that it is for your sake that they are reproaching me.

16 Yahweh, I belong to you and you are the commander of the angel armies.

When you spoke to me,

I eagerly accepted what you said

and it caused me to be very joyful!

17 When the people were carousing together,

I never joined them nor did I rejoice with them.

I sat alone, because of you,

because I was very angry with those people because of their sins.

18 So, why do you allow me to continue to suffer?

Why do you allow me to continually endure being treated badly by others, which is like a living with a wound that never heals.

It seems that you are as undependable as a brook that has water in it only during certain seasons;

and like a spring that has dries up during the hot season.”

19 Then Yahweh replied to me saying this:

“If you will trust in me,

then I will restore you,

in order that you may serve me.

If you proclaim good messages and not worthless ones,

then you will be my spokesperson.

They should certainly follow you,

but you must certainly not follow them.

20 They will fight against you,

but I will protect you, like people are protected from their enemies by a bronze wall.

They will not defeat you,

because I will be with you,

and I will surely rescue you.”

That will happen because Yahweh has said it.

21 Truly, I will keep you safe from those wicked people,

and I will rescue you when cruel people try to seize you.”