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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 Smith's Literal 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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal 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 Jehovah will say to me, If Moses shall stand, and Samuel, before my face, my soul not to this people: casting from my face they shall go forth.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it was if they shall say to thee, Whither shall we go forth? And say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Whom for death to death; and whom for the sword to the sword; and whom for famine to famine; and whom 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 reviewed over them four kinds, says Jehovah: the sword to kill, and dogs to tear in pieces, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to consume and destroy. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I gave them for maltreatment to all the kingdoms because of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For who shall have compassion upon thee, O Jerusalem? and who shall bewail for thee? and who shall turn aside to ask for thy peace?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thou didst reject me, says Jehovah; thou wilt go backward; and I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee; I was weary of lamenting.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I will scatter them with a scattering in the gates of the land; I bereaved of offspring, I destroyed my people; they turned not back from their ways.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their widows were many to me above the sand of the seas: I brought to them against the mother a young man laying waste at noon: I caused to fall upon her suddenly wrath and terror.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>She bringing forth seven, languished: she breathed out her soul; her sun went down in the midst of the day: she was ashamed and blushed: and their remainder I will give to the sword before their enemies, says Jehovah.<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>Wo to me, my mother, for thou broughtest me forth a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth. I lent not on interest and they lent not to me on interest: they are altogether cursing me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Jehovah said, If to do well to thy remnant; if not, I caused the enemy in the time of evil and in time of straits to supplicate to thee.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Shall iron break the iron of the north, and brass?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thy strength and thy treasures I will give for a spoil not for price, and in all thy sins and in all thy bounds.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I caused to pass with thine enemies into a land thou knewest not: for a fire was kindled in 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>Thou knewest, O Jehovah: remember me, and review me, and avenge for me from him pursuing me; not for being slow of thy wrath wilt thou take me away; know, I suffered reproach for thee.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thy words were found, and eating them; and thy word will be to me for the gladness and for the joy of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, Jehovah the God of armies.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I sat not in the assembly of those mocking, and I will not exult; from the face of thy hand I sat alone, for thou didst fill me with anger.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Wherefore was my pain everlasting and my blow incurable, refusing to be healed? Being, wilt thou be to me as falsehood, the waters were not faithful?<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>For this, thus said Jehovah, If thou wilt turn back, and I will turn thee back, thou shalt stand before me: and if thou shalt bring forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall turn back to thee and thou shalt not turn back to them.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And I gave thee to this people for a wall of brass, fortified: and they shall war against thee, and they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, says Jehovah.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I delivered thee out of the hand of the evil, and I redeemed thee from the hand of the terrible.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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