1. The Lord said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me, my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them away from me and let them go.
2. If they ask you, “Where should we go?” tell them, Thus says the Lord: Whoever is marked for death, to death; whoever is marked for the sword, to the sword; whoever is marked for famine, to famine; whoever is marked for captivity, to captivity.
3. Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them—oracle of the Lord—the sword to kill them; dogs to drag them off; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them.
4. And I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
5. Who will pity you, Jerusalem,who will grieve for you?Who will stop to askabout your welfare?
6. It is you who have disowned me—oracle of the Lord—turned your back upon me;I stretched out my hand to destroy you,because I was weary of relenting.
7. I winnowed them with a winnowing forkat the gates of the land;I have bereaved, destroyed my people;they have not turned from their evil ways.