Jeremiah 15:7
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I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
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I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,