Yahweh Appoints Four Kinds of Doom
Then Yahweh said to me, “Even athough bMoses and cSamuel were to dstand before Me, My soul would not be with this people; esend them away from My presence and let them go! 2 And it will be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘Thus says Yahweh:
“Those destined afor death, to death;
And those destined for the sword, to the sword;
And those destined for famine, to famine;
And those destined for captivity, to captivity.”’
3 I will aappoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the bdogs to drag off, and the cbirds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and bring to ruin. 4 I will agive them over to be an example of terror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of bManasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
5 “Indeed, who will aspare you, O Jerusalem,
Or who will bconsole you,
Or who will turn aside to ask about your well‑being?
6 You who have aabandoned Me,” declares Yahweh,
“You keep bgoing backward.
So I will cstretch out My hand against you and bring you to ruin;
I am dtired of relenting!
7 And I will awinnow them with a winnowing fork
At the gates of the land;
I will bbereave them of children; I will make My people perish;
cThey did not repent of their ways.
8 Their awidows will be more numerous before Me
Than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them, against the mother of a choice man,
A bdestroyer at noonday;
I will suddenly bring down on her
Anguish and terror.
9 She who abore seven sons languishes;
Her breathing is labored.
Her bsun has set while it was yet day;
She has been cshamed and humiliated.
So I will dgive over their survivors to the sword
Before their enemies,” declares Yahweh.