Jeremiah

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 the Lord. ¹⁰Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife,and a man of contention to the whole earth!I have not lent, neither have men lent to me;yet every one of them curses me. ¹¹The Lord said,“Most certainly I will strengthen you for good.Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of eviland in the time of affliction. ¹²Can one break iron,even iron from the north, and bronze? ¹³I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price,and that for all your sins,even in all your borders. ¹⁴I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know;for a fire is kindled in my anger,which will burn on you.”