5 “For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?
6aYou have forsaken Me,” says the Lord, “You have bgone backward. Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; cI am1 weary of relenting!
7 And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land; I will abereave them of children; I will destroy My people, Since they bdo not return from their ways.
8 Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, Against the mother of the young men, A plunderer at noonday; I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them asuddenly.
9 “Shea languishes who has borne seven; She has breathed her last; bHer sun has gone down While itwas yet day; She has been ashamed and confounded. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword Before their enemies,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah’s Dejection
10aWoe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole1 earth! I have neither lent for interest, Nor have men lent to me for interest. Every one of them curses me.
11 The Lord said: “Surely it will be well with your remnant; Surely I will cause athe enemy to intercede with you In the time of adversity and in the time of affliction.
Chapter 15 records Jeremiah's second complaint. Here, the prophet experiences a crisis as major—if that could be—as the crisis Judah's king and people were experiencing. Jeremiah's was a crisis in belief so dangerous that it threatened his position as God's prophet. Chapter 15 opens with what can only be characterized as a sensational word-picture of God's rejection of Judah. Indeed, only a man after God's own heart, with a super-robust conviction of God's ultimate beneficence, could stomach such a mammoth calamity, seeing God's hand in it.
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