Jeremiah 15:7-9

International Children’s Bible

⁷ I will separate the people of Judah with my pitchfork.
    I will scatter them at the city gates of the land.
My people haven’t changed their ways.
    So I will destroy them.
    I will take away their children.
⁸ Many women will lose their husbands.
    There will be more widows than the sand of the sea.
I will bring a destroyer at noontime
    against the mothers of the young men of Judah.
I will suddenly bring pain and fear
    on the people of Judah.
⁹ The enemy will attack.
    I will still hand over to the killers those who are left alive from Judah.
A woman might have seven sons, but they will all die.
    She will cry until she becomes weak and unable to breathe.
She will be upset and confused.
    Her bright day will become dark from sadness!” says the Lord.