Jeremiah 15:1-6

The Lord Will Not Relent

1 Then the LORD said to me, 1"Though 2Moses 3and Samuel 4stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!
2 And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: 5"'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.'
3 6I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and 7the birds of the air 8and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
4 9And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what 10Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
5 11"Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, 12or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
6 13You have rejected me, declares the LORD; 14you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you-- 15I am weary of relenting.

Cross References 15

  • 1. Psalms 99:6; [Ezekiel 14:14]
  • 2. [Psalms 106:23]; See Exodus 32:11-13
  • 3. [1 Samuel 7:9; 1 Samuel 8:6; 1 Samuel 12:23; 1 Samuel 15:11]
  • 4. Jeremiah 35:19; [ver. 19]
  • 5. Jeremiah 14:12; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 21:9; Jeremiah 43:11; Ezekiel 5:12; Ezekiel 6:11, 12; Zechariah 11:9
  • 6. See Leviticus 26:16-22
  • 7. Deuteronomy 28:26
  • 8. Revelation 6:8
  • 9. Jeremiah 24:9; Jeremiah 29:18; Jeremiah 34:17; Deuteronomy 28:25
  • 10. [2 Kgs. 21:2, 11, 16, 17; 2 Kings 23:26; 2 Kings 24:3, 4]
  • 11. Isaiah 51:19; [Nahum 3:7]
  • 12. Isaiah 51:19; [Nahum 3:7]
  • 13. Deuteronomy 32:15
  • 14. See Jeremiah 7:24
  • 15. [Hosea 13:14]
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