2 And it shall come to pass if they say unto thee Whither shall we go forth then thou shalt tell them Thus saith the LORD Such as are for death to death and such as are for the sword to the sword and such as are for the famine to the famine and such as are for the captivity to the captivity
3 And I will appoint over them four kinds saith the LORD the sword to slay and the dogs to tear and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy 4 And I will cause them to be removed __ into all kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah for that which he did in Jerusalem
5 For who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem or who shall bemoan thee or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest
6 Thou hast forsaken me saith the LORD thou art gone backward therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee and destroy thee I am weary with repenting
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land I will bereave them of children I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways
8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly and terrors upon the city
9 She that hath borne seven languisheth she hath given up the ghost her sun is gone down while it was yet day __ she hath been ashamed and confounded and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies saith the LORD
10 Woe is me my mother that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth I have neither lent on usury nor men have lent to me on usury yet every one of them doth curse me
11 The LORD said Verily __ it shall be well with thy remnant verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction
12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel
13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price and that for all thy sins even in all thy borders
14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not for a fire is kindled in mine anger which shall burn upon you
15 O LORD thou knowest remember me and visit me and revenge me of my persecutors take me not away in thy longsuffering __ know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke
16 Thy words were found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart for I am called by thy name O LORD God of hosts
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers nor rejoiced I sat alone because of thy hand for thou hast filled me with indignation
18 Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable which refuseth to be healed wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar and as waters that fail
19 Therefore thus saith the LORD If thou return then will I bring thee again and thou shalt stand before me and if thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth let them return unto thee but return not thou unto them
20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall and they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee saith the LORD
21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible
