1Then Yehovah said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go out. 2And it shall come to pass, when they say to you, Where shall we go? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yehovah: Those who are for death, to death; and those who are for the sword, to the sword; and those who are for the famine, to the famine; and those who are for captivity, to captivity. 3And I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy. 4And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. 5For who will have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? 6You have rejected me, says Yehovah, you have gone backward: therefore I have stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with relenting. 7And I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they did not return from their ways. 8Their widows have increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly. 9She who has borne seven languishes; she has breathed her last; her sun has gone down while it was yet day; she has been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yehovah. 10Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me. 11Yehovah said, Truly I will strengthen you for good; truly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze? 13Your substance and your treasures I will give for a spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders. 14And I will make them pass with your enemies into a land which you do not know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you. 15O Yehovah, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; do not take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. 16Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O Yehovah, God of hosts. 17I did not sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoice; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation. 18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail? 19Therefore thus says Yehovah, If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you bring out the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them. 20And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yehovah. 21And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.