Jeremiah 15:6-8

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⁶ You [^CJerusalem] have ·left me [cast me off],” says the Lord.
    “You keep going ·farther and farther away [backward],
so I have ·taken hold of you [^Lstretched out my hand] and destroyed you.
    I was tired of ·holding back my anger [relenting].
⁷ I have ·separated [winnowed] them [^Cthe people of Judah] with my ·pitchfork [winnowing fork] in the gates of the land.
My people haven’t changed their ways.
    So I have destroyed ·them [^Lmy people]
    and ·taken away their children [bereaved them].
⁸ There are more widows than grains of sand in the sea [^Can ironic reference to Gen. 22:17; 32:12; 41:49].
I brought a destroyer at noontime
    against the mothers of the young men of Judah.
I suddenly ·brought pain and fear
    on the people of Judah [^Lmade anguish and fear fall on them].