13 “Your wealth(A) and your treasures
    I will give as plunder,(B) without charge,(C)
because of all your sins
    throughout your country.(D)
14 I will enslave you to your enemies
    in[a] a land you do not know,(E)
for my anger will kindle a fire(F)
    that will burn against you.”

15 Lord, you understand;
    remember me and care for me.
    Avenge me on my persecutors.(G)
You are long-suffering(H)—do not take me away;
    think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 17:4); most Hebrew manuscripts I will cause your enemies to bring you / into

13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

15 O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

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