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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 Amplified Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">AMP</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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/jeremiah/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Judgment Must Come</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me [interceding for them], My heart would still not be [turned with favor] toward this people [Judah]. Send them away from My presence <i>and</i> out of My sight and let them go! <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it shall be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then tell them, ‘Thus says the LORD: <p class="indent1stline">“Those [destined] for death, to death; <t><p class="indent1">Those for the sword, to the sword; <t><p class="indent1">Those for famine, to famine; <t><p class="indent1">Those for captivity, to captivity.”’ <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I will appoint four kinds of destroyers over them,” says the LORD, “the sword to slay, the dogs to tear <i>and</i> drag away, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and to destroy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will make them an object of horror to all nations of the earth because of Manasseh [the despicable] son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for the [evil and detestable] things which he did in Jerusalem. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, <t><p class="indent1">Or who will mourn for you, <t><p class="indent1">Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“You have abandoned (rejected) Me,” says the LORD. <t><p class="indent1">“You keep going backward. <t><p class="indent1">Therefore I shall stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; <t><p class="indent1">I am tired of delaying [your punishment]! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“I will winnow (sort, separate) them with a winnowing fork <t><p class="indent1">At the gates of the land; <t><p class="indent1">I will deprive them of children, I will destroy My people; <t><p class="indent1">They did not repent <i>and</i> turn from their [evil] ways. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“I will make their widows more numerous before Me <t><p class="indent1">Than the sand of the seas; <t><p class="indent1">I will bring against them, against the mother of the young men, <t><p class="indent1">A <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>destroyer at noonday; <t><p class="indent1">I will suddenly cause anguish and terror <t><p class="indent1">To fall on her. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“She who has borne seven [sons] languishes; <t><p class="indent1">She has breathed out her soul. <t><p class="indent1">Her sun has set while it was still day; <t><p class="indent1">She has been shamed and humiliated. <t><p class="indent1">So I will hand over [the rest of] the survivors to the sword <t><p class="indent1">Before their enemies,” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Woe to me, my mother, that you have given birth to me <t><p class="indent1">To be a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth! <t><p class="indent1">I have not loaned, nor have men lent money to me, <t><p class="indent1">Yet everyone curses me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The LORD said, “Surely [it will go well for Judah’s obedient remnant for] I will set you free for good <i>purposes;</i> <t><p class="indent1">Surely [Jeremiah] I will [intercede for you with the enemy and I will] cause the enemy to plead with you [for help] <t><p class="indent1">In a time of disaster and a time of distress. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Can anyone crush iron, <t><p class="indent1">The iron from the north, or bronze? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Your [nation’s] riches and your treasures <t><p class="indent1">I will give as plunder without price [to the Babylonians], <t><p class="indent1">Because of all your sins <t><p class="indent1">And within all your territories. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Then I will make your enemies bring [you along with] your possessions <t><p class="indent1">Into a land which you do not know [for there you will serve your conquerors]; <t><p class="indent1">For a fire has been kindled in My anger, <t><p class="indent1">Which will burn upon you.” <p class="hdg">Jeremiah’s Prayer and God’s Answer</p><poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>O LORD, You know <i>and</i> understand; <t><p class="indent1">Remember me [thoughtfully], take notice of me, <t><p class="indent1">take vengeance for me on my persecutors. <t><p class="indent1">Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away; <t><p class="indent1">Know that for Your sake I endure [continual] rebuke <i>and</i> dishonor. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Your words were found and I ate them, <t><p class="indent1">And Your words became a joy to me and the delight of my heart; <t><p class="indent1">For I have been called by Your name, <t><p class="indent1">O LORD God of hosts. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I did not sit with the group of those who celebrate, <t><p class="indent1">Nor did I rejoice; <t><p class="indent1">I sat alone because Your [powerful] hand was <i>upon me,</i> <t><p class="indent1">For You had filled me with indignation [at their sin]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Why has my pain been perpetual <t><p class="indent1">And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? <t><p class="indent1">Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive <i>brook</i> <t><p class="indent1">With water that is unreliable? <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore, thus says the LORD [to Jeremiah], <p class="indent1stline">“If you repent [and give up this mistaken attitude of despair and self-pity], then I will restore you [to a state of inner peace] <t><p class="indent1">So that you may stand before Me [as My obedient representative]; <t><p class="indent1">And if you separate the precious from the worthless [examining yourself and cleansing your heart from unwarranted doubt concerning My faithfulness], <t><p class="indent1">You will become My spokesman. <t><p class="indent1">Let the people turn to you [and learn to value My values]-- <t><p class="indent1">But you, you must not turn to them [with regard for their idolatry and wickedness]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“And I will make you to this people <t><p class="indent1">A fortified wall of bronze; <t><p class="indent1">They will fight against you, <t><p class="indent1">But they will not prevail over you, <t><p class="indent1">For I am with you [always] to save you <t><p class="indent1">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>protect you,” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“So I will rescue you out of the hand of the wicked, <t><p class="indent1">And I will redeem you from the [grasping] palm of the terrible <i>and</i> ruthless [tyrant].”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> A midday attack would be completely unexpected.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>deliver</i>.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <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 align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>