Jeremiah 15:7-9

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁷ “I will separate them with a winnowing ^[a] shovel at the city gates.
I will make them childless.
I will destroy my people because they will not change their ways.
⁸ Their widows will be more numerous
than the grains of sand on the seashore.
At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men.
I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.
⁹ A mother who gives birth to seven sons will grow faint
and breathe her last.
She will die, ashamed and humiliated,
while it is still daylight.

I will put survivors from these people to death
in the presence of their enemies,” declares the Lord.