“I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land.I have bereaved them of children.I have destroyed my people.They didn’t return from their ways.”
Jeremiah 15:7 (WEB)
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5For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?Who will mourn you?Who will come to ask of your welfare? 6You have rejected me,” says Yahweh.“You have gone backward.Therefore I have stretched out my hand against youand destroyed you.I am weary of showing compassion. 7I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land.I have bereaved them of children.I have destroyed my people.They didn’t return from their ways. 8Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas.I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday.I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly. 9She who has borne seven languishes.She has given up the spirit.Her sun has gone down while it was yet day.She has been disappointed and confounded.I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.