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Then the LORD said to me, "Even ^(C1)if ^(C2)Moses and ^(C3)Samuel were to ^(C4)stand before Me, My ^(F1)heart would not be ^(F2)with this people. ^(C5)Send them away from My presence and have them go!

"And it shall be that when they say to you, 'Where should we go?' then you are to tell them, 'This is what the LORD says: "Those destined ^(C1)for 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."'

"And I will ^(C1)appoint over them four kinds of doom," declares the LORD: "the sword to kill, the ^(C2)dogs to drag away, and the ^(C3)birds of the sky and the animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

"I will ^(C1)make them an object of terror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of ^(C2)Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

"Indeed, who will have ^(C1)pity on you, Jerusalem, Or who will ^(C2)mourn for you, Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

-"You who have ^(C1)forsaken Me," declares the LORD, "You keep ^(C2)going backward. So I will ^(C3)stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am ^(C4)tired of relenting!

-"I will ^(C1)winnow them with a winnowing fork At the gates of the land; I will ^(C2)bereave them of children, I will destroy My people; ^(C3)They did not ^(F1)repent of their ways.

-"Their ^(C1)widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, A ^(C2)destroyer at noon; I will suddenly bring down on her Shock and horror.

-"She who ^(C1)gave birth to seven sons withers away; ^(F1)Her breathing is labored. Her ^(C2)sun has set while it was still day; She has been ^(C3)shamed and humiliated. So I will ^(C4)turn over their survivors to the sword Before their enemies," declares the LORD.