Jeremiah 15:5 - 15:9

“Indeed, who will spare you, O Jerusalem,

Or who will console you,

Or who will turn aside to ask about your well‑being?

You who have abandoned Me,” declares Yahweh,

“You keep going backward.

So I will stretch out My hand against you and bring you to ruin;

I am tired of relenting!

And I will winnow them with a winnowing fork

At the gates of the land;

I will bereave them of children; I will make My people perish;

They did not repent of their ways.

Their widows will be more numerous before Me

Than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them, against the mother of a choice man,

A destroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly bring down on her

Anguish and terror.

She who bore seven sons languishes;

Her breathing is labored.

Her sun has set while it was yet day;

She has been shamed and humiliated.

So I will give over their survivors to the sword

Before their enemies,” declares Yahweh.