# Jeremiah 15 (New King James Version)
The Lord Will Not Relent

##### Chapter 15
###### 1 Then the Lord said to me, "_Even_ if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind _would_ not _be_ favorable toward this people. Cast _them_ out of My sight, and let them go forth.  
###### 2 And it shall be, if they say to you, 'Where should we go?' then you shall tell them, 'Thus says 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 forms _of destruction,_" says the Lord: "the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.  
###### 4 I will hand them over to trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

###### 5 "For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?  
Or who will bemoan you?  
Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?  

###### 6 You have forsaken Me," says the Lord,  
"You have gone backward.  
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;  
I am weary of relenting!  

###### 7 And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land;  
I will bereave _them_ of children;  
I will destroy My people,  
_Since_ they do not return from their ways.  

###### 8 Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;  
I will bring against them,  
Against the mother of the young men,  
A plunderer at noonday;  
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.

###### 9 "She languishes who has borne seven;  
She has breathed her last;  
Her sun has gone down  
While _it was_ yet day;  
She has been ashamed and confounded.  
And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword  
Before their enemies," says the Lord.Jeremiah's Dejection

###### 10 Woe is me, my mother,  
That you have borne me,  
A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!  
I have neither lent for interest,  
Nor have men lent to me for interest.  
Every one of them curses me.

###### 11 The Lord said:
"Surely it will be well with your remnant;  
Surely I will cause the enemy to intercede with you  
In the time of adversity and in the time of affliction.  

###### 12 Can anyone break iron,  
The northern iron and the bronze?  

###### 13 Your wealth and your treasures  
I will give as plunder without price,  
Because of all your sins,  
Throughout your territories.  

###### 14 And I will make _you_ cross over with your enemies  
Into a land _which_ you do not know;  
For a fire is kindled in My anger,  
_Which_ shall burn upon you."

###### 15 O Lord, You know;  
Remember me and visit me,  
And take vengeance for me on my persecutors.  
In Your enduring patience, do not take me away.  
Know that for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.  

###### 16 Your words were found, and I ate them,  
And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;  
For I am called by Your name,  
O Lord God of hosts.  

###### 17 I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers,  
Nor did I rejoice;  
I sat alone because of Your hand,  
For You have filled me with indignation.  

###### 18 Why is my pain perpetual  
And my wound incurable,  
_Which_ refuses to be healed?  
Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream,  
_As_ waters _that_ fail?The Lord Reassures Jeremiah

###### 19 Therefore thus says the Lord:
"If you return,  
Then I will bring you back;  
You shall stand before Me;  
If you take out the precious from the vile,  
You shall be as My mouth.  
Let them return to you,  
But you must not return to them.  

###### 20 And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall;  
And they will fight against you,  
But they shall not prevail against you;  
For I _am_ with you to save you  
And deliver you," says the Lord.  

###### 21 "I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked,  
And I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible."