Jeremiah 15:5-11
5 a“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,bor who will grieve for you?
Who will turn aside
to ask about your welfare?
6 cYou have rejected me, declares the Lord;
dyou keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
eI am weary of relenting.
7 fI have winnowed them with ga winnowing fork
in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
hthey did not turn from their ways.
8I have made their widows more in number
than ithe sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon them suddenly.
9 jShe who bore seven has grown feeble;
kshe has fainted away;
lher sun went down while it was yet day;
she has been shamed and disgraced.
And the rest of them I will give to the sword
before their enemies,
declares the Lord.”
Jeremiah’s Complaint
10 mWoe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! nI have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 11The Lord said, “Have I not ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?
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