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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 15
And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand
before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast
them out from my sight, and let them go forth.
And if they shall say unto thee: Whither shall we go
forth? thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord:
Such as are for death, to death: and such as are to
the sword, to the sword: and such as are for famine,
to famine: and such as are to captivity, to captivity.
And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord:
The sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls
of the air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and
destroy.
And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms
of the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias
the king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.
For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? or who
shall bemoan thee? or who shall go to pray for thy peace?
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone
backward: and I will stretch out my hand against thee,
and I will destroy thee: I am weary of entreating thee.
And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the
land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet
they are not returned form their ways.
Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of
the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother
of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a
terror on a sudden upon the cities.
She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath
fainted away: her sun is gone down, while it was yet
day: she is confounded, and ashamed: and the residue
of them I will give up to the sword in the sight of
their enemies, saith the Lord.
Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of
strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have
not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on
usury: yet all curse me.
The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it shall be well with
thy remnant, assuredly I shall help thee in the time
of affliction, and in the time of tribulation against
the enemy.
Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and
the brass?
Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil
for nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy
borders.
And I will bring thy enemies out of a land, which thou
knowest not: for a fire is kindled in my rage, it shall
burn upon you.
O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and
defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend
me in thy patience: know that for thy sake I have sufferred
reproach.
Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word
was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name
is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.
I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make
a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because
thou hast filled me with threats.
Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate
so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as
the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.
Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt be converted,
I will convert thee, and thou shalt stand before my
face; and if thou wilt separate the precious from the
vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall be turned
to thee, and thou shalt not be turned to them.
And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall
of brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall
not prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to
deliver thee, saith the Lord.
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked,
and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty. |
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