Jeremiah 44:7
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So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?
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You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.
At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.