1Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
2It will happen when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says:
3“I will appoint over them four kinds,” says Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
4I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
5For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?
6You have rejected me,” says Yahweh.
7I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land.
8Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas.
9She who has borne seven languishes.
10Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife,
11Yahweh said,
12Can one break iron,
13I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price,
14I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know;
15Yahweh, you know.
16Your words were found,
17I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice.
18Why is my pain perpetual,
19Therefore Yahweh says,
20I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall.
21“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,