From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   Jeremiah 15   
      
    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.   
      
   10 Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,   
       a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!   
   I have neither lent nor borrowed,   
       yet everyone curses me.   
      
   11 The Lord said,   
      
   “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose;   
       surely I will make your enemies plead with you   
       in times of disaster and times of distress.   
      
   12 “Can a man break iron—   
       iron from the north—or bronze?   
      
   13 “Your wealth and your treasures   
       I will give as plunder, without charge,   
   because of all your sins   
       throughout your country.   
   14 I will enslave you to your enemies   
       in[a] a land you do not know,   
   for my anger will kindle a fire   
       that will burn against you.”   
      
   15 Lord, you understand;   
       remember me and care for me.   
       Avenge me on my persecutors.   
   You are long-suffering—do not take me away;   
       think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.   
   16 When your words came, I ate them;   
       they were my joy and my heart’s delight,   
   for I bear your name,   
       Lord God Almighty.   
   17 I never sat in the company of revelers,   
       never made merry with them;   
   I sat alone because your hand was on me   
       and you had filled me with indignation.   
   18 Why is my pain unending   
       and my wound grievous and incurable?   
   You are to me like a deceptive brook,   
       like a spring that fails.   
      
   19 Therefore this is what the Lord says:   
      
   “If you repent, I will restore you   
       that you may serve me;   
   if you utter worthy, not worthless, words,   
       you will be my spokesman.   
   Let this people turn to you,   
       but you must not turn to them.   
   20 I will make you a wall to this people,   
       a fortified wall of bronze;   
   they will fight against you   
       but will not overcome you,   
   for I am with you   
       to rescue and save you,”   
   declares the Lord.   
   21 “I will save you from the hands of the wicked   
       and deliver you from the grasp of the cruel.”   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)