Jeremiah 15:1-9

1 Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go!
2 And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the LORD says: “ ‘Those destined for death, to death; those for the sword, to the sword; those for starvation, to starvation; those for captivity, to captivity.’
3 “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the LORD, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy.
4 I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
5 “Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will stop to ask how you are?
6 You have rejected me,” declares the LORD. “You keep on backsliding. So I will reach out and destroy you; I am tired of holding back.
7 I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people, for they have not changed their ways.
8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.
9 The mother of seven will grow faint and breathe her last. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. I will put the survivors to the sword before their enemies,” declares the LORD.

Cross References 31

  • 1. S Exodus 32:11; Numbers 14:13-20
  • 2. S 1 Samuel 1:20; S 1 Samuel 7:8; 1 Samuel 7:9
  • 3. S 1 Samuel 2:25; S Jeremiah 7:16; Ezekiel 14:14,20
  • 4. S 2 Kings 17:20; Jeremiah 16:13
  • 5. Jeremiah 42:22; Jeremiah 43:11; Jeremiah 44:13
  • 6. S Deuteronomy 28:26; S Jeremiah 14:12; Lamentations 4:9
  • 7. Ezekiel 12:11; Revelation 13:10
  • 8. S Numbers 33:4; Leviticus 26:16
  • 9. S Leviticus 26:25
  • 10. S 1 Kings 21:19; S 2 Kings 9:36
  • 11. S Deuteronomy 28:26
  • 12. S Leviticus 26:22; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 33:27
  • 13. Jeremiah 24:9; Jeremiah 29:18; Jeremiah 34:17
  • 14. S Deuteronomy 28:25; S Job 17:6
  • 15. S 2 Kings 21:2; 2 Kings 23:26-27
  • 16. Isaiah 27:11; Isaiah 51:19; S Jeremiah 13:14; Jeremiah 16:13; Jeremiah 21:7; Nahum 3:7
  • 17. S Deuteronomy 32:15; Jeremiah 6:19; Jeremiah 7:24
  • 18. Isaiah 31:3; Zephaniah 1:4
  • 19. S Jeremiah 7:20; Amos 7:8
  • 20. S Isaiah 41:16
  • 21. Isaiah 3:26
  • 22. Jeremiah 18:21
  • 23. S 2 Chronicles 28:22
  • 24. S Isaiah 47:9
  • 25. S Jeremiah 4:7; S Jeremiah 6:4
  • 26. S Job 18:11
  • 27. 1 Samuel 2:5
  • 28. S Job 8:13
  • 29. Jeremiah 7:19
  • 30. Jeremiah 21:7; Jeremiah 25:31
  • 31. 2 Kings 25:7; Jeremiah 19:7
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