1 耶和华对我说："即使摩西和撒母耳站在我面前代求，我的心也不会转向这人民。你把他们从我面前赶走，叫他们出去！2 如果他们问你：‘我们要去哪里？’你就告诉他们：‘耶和华这样说：

该死亡的，就死亡；

该被刀剑所杀的，就被刀剑所杀；

该遭遇饥荒的，就遭遇饥荒；

该被掳的，就被掳去！’

3 我要命定四种刑罚对付他们，就是刀剑杀戮，尸体被野狗拖走，被空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽吞吃与毁灭。"这是耶和华的宣告。4 "因犹大王希西家的儿子玛拿西在耶路撒冷的所作所为，我必使地上万国看见他们的遭遇就惊恐。"

5 "耶路撒冷啊！谁会可怜你呢？

谁会为你悲伤呢？

谁会转身向你问安呢？

6 你离弃了我，

你转身背着我；

因此我要伸手攻击你，毁灭你，

我不会再回心转意。"

这是耶和华的宣告。

7 "我在这地的城门口，

用簸箕簸了我的子民，

使他们丧掉儿女，使他们灭亡；

他们仍不转离自己所行的路。

8 我使他们寡妇的数目

比海沙还多；

我使行毁灭的在午间临到我的子民，

打击年轻人的母亲，

使痛苦的惊恐忽然临到她们身上。

9 那生过七个子女的母亲衰竭疲弱，

几乎气绝；

还在白昼，她的太阳已经西落，

她必惭愧蒙羞。

我必使他们余剩的人在敌人面前死于刀下。"

这是耶和华的宣告。

10 我母亲哪！我有祸了，因为你生了我，

这个跟全地相争相斗的人。

我从没有借钱给人，也没有向人借钱，

可是人人都咒骂我。

11 耶和华说："我必为你的好处释放你；

在遭遇祸患和灾难的时候，

我必叫你的仇敌恳求你。

12 谁可以折断铁，

就是从北方来的铁和铜呢？

13 因你在四境之内所犯的一切罪，

我必把你的财产和宝物，

白白给敌人作掠物。

14 我必使你在你不认识的地方，

服事你的仇敌*有古抄本作"我必使你的仇敌过去，到你所不认识的地方"；

因为我的怒火燃烧起来，

要烧灭你们。"

15 耶和华啊！你知道这一切；

求你记念我，看顾我，

替我向那些逼迫我的人报复。

求你忍怒，不要取去我的性命；

要知道，我为你的缘故受了侮辱。

16 我一得到你的话，就把它们吃了；

你的话成了我心中的欢喜快乐；

耶和华万军的　神啊！

因为我是称为你名下的人。

17 我没有坐在欢笑者的集会中一同欢乐；

因为你的手在我身上，

你使我满了忿怒，

我就独自静坐。

18 我的痛苦为甚么长久不止呢？

我的创伤为甚么无法医治，不得痊愈呢？

你对我真的像叫人失望、

靠不住的溪流吗？

19 因此，耶和华这样说：

"如果你回转，我必让你回来，

你就可以侍立在我面前。

如果你说宝贵的话，不说无价值的话，

就必作我的口。

他们要归向你，

你却不要归向他们。

20 我要使你成为坚固的铜墙抵挡这人民，

他们必攻击你，却不能胜过你；

因为我与你同在，

要拯救你，搭救你。"

这是耶和华的宣告。

21 "我必搭救你脱离恶人的手，

救赎你脱离强暴人的掌握*"掌握"原文作"手掌"。"

1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.*15.3 kinds: Heb. families 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.*15.4 cause…: Heb. give them for a removing 5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?*15.5 how…: Heb. of thy peace? 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.*15.7 children: or, whatsoever is dear 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.*15.8 the mother…: or, the mother city a young man spoiling, etc, or, the mother and the young men 9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. 11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.*15.11 cause…: or, intreat the enemy for thee 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. 14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.*15.16 I am…: Heb. thy name is called upon me 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?*15.18 fail: Heb. be not sure?

19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.