2 It shall come to pass if they say to you, “Where should we go?” then you shall tell them: Thus says the Lord: Those destined for death, to death;and those destined for the sword, to the sword;and those destined for the famine, to the famine;and those destined for the captivity, to the captivity.
3 I will appoint over them four kinds of disaster, says the Lord: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, the birds of the heaven, the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
4 I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
5 For who shall have pity on you, OJerusalem?Or who shall bemoan you?Or who shall go aside to ask how you are doing?
6 You who have forsaken Me, says the Lord,you keep going backward.Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you.I am weary of relenting!
7 I will winnow them with a winnowing forkin the gates of the land;I will bereave them of children. I will destroy My people,since they did not repent from their ways.
8 Their widows will increase before Memore than the sand of the seas;I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man,a destroyer at noonday;I will suddenly bring down on hersorrow and terrors.