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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Will Not Relent</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,</span><br /><span class="indent">and those who are for the sword, to the sword;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">those who are for famine, to famine,</span><br /><span class="indent">and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent">or who will grieve for you?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Who will turn aside</span><br /><span class="indent">to ask about your welfare?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have rejected me, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent">you keep going backward,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—</span><br /><span class="indent">I am weary of relenting.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork</span><br /><span class="indent">in the gates of the land;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;</span><br /><span class="indent">they did not turn from their ways.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have made their widows more in number</span><br /><span class="indent">than the sand of the seas;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I have brought against the mothers of young men</span><br /><span class="indent">a destroyer at noonday;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I have made anguish and terror</span><br /><span class="indent">fall upon them suddenly.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">She who bore seven has grown feeble;</span><br /><span class="indent">she has fainted away;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">her sun went down while it was yet day;</span><br /><span class="indent">she has been shamed and disgraced.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">And the rest of them I will give to the sword</span><br /><span class="indent">before their enemies,</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Jeremiah’s Complaint</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, “Have I not<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">a</a></sup></span> set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, you know;</span><br /><span class="indent">remember me and visit me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and take vengeance for me on my persecutors.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">In your forbearance take me not away;</span><br /><span class="indent">know that for your sake I bear reproach.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your words were found, and I ate them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your words became to me a joy</span><br /><span class="indent">and the delight of my heart,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for I am called by your name,</span><br /><span class="indent">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, God of hosts.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I did not sit in the company of revelers,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor did I rejoice;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I sat alone, because your hand was upon me,</span><br /><span class="indent">for you had filled me with indignation.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why is my pain unceasing,</span><br /><span class="indent">my wound incurable,</span><br /><span class="indent">refusing to be healed?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Will you be to me like a deceitful brook,</span><br /><span class="indent">like waters that fail?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“If you return, I will restore you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you shall stand before me.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,</span><br /><span class="indent">you shall be as my mouth.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">They shall turn to you,</span><br /><span class="indent">but you shall not turn to them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And I will make you to this people</span><br /><span class="indent">a fortified wall of bronze;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they will fight against you,</span><br /><span class="indent">but they shall not prevail over you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for I am with you</span><br /><span class="indent">to save you and deliver you,</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,</span><br /><span class="indent">and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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