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Therefore I will stretch out My hand 13 Your wealth and your treasures
against you and destroy you; I will give as plunder without price,
I am weary of relenting! Because of all your sins,
And I will winnow them with a Throughout your territories.
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winnowing fan in the gates of the 14 And I will make you cross over with
land; your enemies
I will bereave them of children; Into a land which you do not know;
I will destroy My people, For a fire is kindled in My anger,
Since they do not return from their Which shall burn upon you.”
ways.
8 Their widows will be increased to Me 15 O LORD, You know;
more than the sand of the seas; Remember me and visit me,
I will bring against them, And take vengeance for me on my
Against the mother of the young men, persecutors.
A plunderer at noonday; In Your enduring patience, do not take
I will cause anguish and terror to fall me away.
on them suddenly. Know that for Your sake I have
suffered rebuke.
9 “She languishes who has borne seven; 16 Your words were found, and I ate
She has breathed her last; them,
Her sun has gone down And Your word was to me the joy and
While it was yet day; rejoicing of my heart;
She has been ashamed and For I am called by Your name,
confounded. O LORD God of hosts.
And the remnant of them I will deliver 17 I did not sit in the assembly of the
to the sword mockers,
Before their enemies,” says the LORD. Nor did I rejoice;
I sat alone because of Your hand,
For You have filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain perpetual
15:1–9 It was ineffective at this point to inter- And my wound incurable,
cede for the nation. Even prayers by Moses Which refuses to be healed?
(Num. 14:11–25) and Samuel (1 Sam. Will You surely be to me like an
12:19–25), eminent in intercession, would not unreliable stream,
defer judgment,where unrepentance persists. As waters that fail?
Chief among things provoking judgment was
the intense sin of King Manasseh.Noted in v.4, 19 Therefore thus says the LORD:
this provocation is recounted in 2 Kings “If you return,
21:1–18,2 Kings 23:26,which says the Lord did Then I will bring you back;
not relent from His anger because of this.
You shall stand before Me;
If you take out the precious from the vile,
You shall be as My mouth.
Woe is me, my mother, Let them return to you,
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That you have borne me, But you must not return to them.
A man of strife and a man of contention 20 And I will make you to this people a
to the whole earth!
fortified bronze wall;
I have neither lent for interest, And they will fight against you,
Nor have men lent to me for interest. But they shall not prevail against you;
Every one of them curses me.
For I am with you to save you
11 The LORD said: And deliver you,” says the LORD.
21 “I will deliver you from the hand of the
“Surely it will be well with your
remnant; wicked,
Surely I will cause the enemy to And I will redeem you from the grip of
intercede with you the terrible.”
In the time of adversity and in the time The word of the LORD also came to me,
of affliction. 16 saying, “You shall not take a wife, nor
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12 Can anyone break iron, shall you have sons or daughters in this place.”
The northern iron and the bronze? 3 For thus says the LORD concerning the sons

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