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PROPHETS
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No, you are the one, O Lord our God!
Only you can do such things.
So we will wait for you to help us.
Then the Lord said to me, “Even if M
oses and Samuel stood before
me pleading for these people, I wouldn’t help them. Away with them! Get
them out of my sight! And if they say to you, ‘But where can we go?’ tell
them, ‘This is what the Lord says:
“‘Those who are destined for death, to death;
those who are destined for war, to war;
those who are destined for famine, to famine;
those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.’
“I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord. “I
will send the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour,
and the wild animals to finish up what is left. Because of the wicked things
Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my
people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
“Who will feel sorry for you, Jerusalem?
Who will weep for you?
Who will even bother to ask how you are?
You have abandoned me
and turned your back on me,”
says the Lord.
“Therefore, I will raise my fist to destroy you.
I am tired of always giving you another chance.
I will winnow you like grain at the gates of your cities
and take away the children you hold dear.
I will destroy my own people,
because they refuse to change their evil ways.
There will be more widows
than the grains of sand on the seashore.
At noontime I will bring a destroyer
against the mothers of young men.
I will cause anguish and terror
to come upon them suddenly.
The mother of seven grows faint and gasps
for breath;
her sun has gone down while it is still day.
She sits childless now,
disgraced and humiliated.
And I will hand over those who are left
