“Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease.
Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war.
Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation.
Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.” 1
15:3 “I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses. 2 15:4 I will make all the people in all the kingdoms of the world horrified at what has happened to them because of what Hezekiah’s son Manasseh, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.” 3
15:5 The Lord cried out, 4
“Who in the world 5 will have pity on you, Jerusalem?
Who will grieve over you?
Who will stop long enough 6
to inquire about how you are doing? 7
15:6 I, the Lord, say: 8 ‘You people have deserted me!
You keep turning your back on me.’ 9
So I have unleashed my power against you 10 and have begun to destroy you. 11
I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!” 12
15:7 The Lord continued, 13
“In every town in the land I will purge them
like straw blown away by the wind. 14
I will destroy my people.
I will kill off their children.
I will do so because they did not change their behavior. 15
15:8 Their widows will become in my sight more numerous 16
than the grains of sand on the seashores.
At noontime I will bring a destroyer
against the mothers of their young men. 17
I will cause anguish 18 and terror
to fall suddenly upon them. 19
15:9 The mother who had seven children 20 will grow faint.
All the breath will go out of her. 21
Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life.
It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. 22
She will suffer shame and humiliation. 23
I will cause any of them who are still left alive
to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,” 24
says the Lord.