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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 15 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Jeremiah 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/14.htm" title="Jeremiah 14">◄</a> Jeremiah 15 <a href="../jeremiah/16.htm" title="Jeremiah 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/15-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment to Continue<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before my face, my soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it shall be, if they say to thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I will punish them with four kinds <i>of death</i>, saith the Lord, the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who will spare thee, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for thee? or who will turn back <i>to</i> <i>ask</i> for thy welfare?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thou hast turned away from me, saith the Lord, thou wilt go back: therefore I will stretch out my hand, and will destroy thee, and will no more spare them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of my people they are bereaved of children: they have destroyed my people because of their iniquities.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, <i>even</i> distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>She that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced: I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Jeremiah’s Woe<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Woe is me, <i>my</i> mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped <i>others</i>, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before thee in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for <i>their</i> good against the enemy.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Will iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yea, I will give thy treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all thy sins and <i>that</i> in all thy borders.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I will enslave thee to thine enemies round about, in a land which thou hast not known; for a fire has been kindled out of my wrath; it shall burn upon you.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy words;<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>consume them; and thy word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that has no faithfulness.<p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD’s Promise<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou wilt return, then will I restore thee, and thou shalt stand before my face: and if thou wilt bring forth the precious from the worthless, thou shalt be as my mouth: and they shall return to thee; but thou shalt not return to them.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And I will make thee to this people as a strong brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall by no means prevail against thee;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee out of the hand of wicked <i>men</i>; and I will ransom thee out of the hand of pestilent <i>men</i>.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>