1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
2If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says:
3I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
4I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
5Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?
6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD.
7I will scatter them with a winnowing fork
8I will make their widows more numerous
9The mother of seven will grow faint;
10Woe to me, my mother,
11The LORD said:
12Can anyone smash iron—
13Your wealth and your treasures
14Then I will enslave you to your enemies
15You understand, O LORD;
16Your words were found, and I ate them.
17I never sat with the band of revelers,
18Why is my pain unending,
19Therefore this is what the LORD says:
20Then I will make you a wall to this people,
21I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked