15:5 The Lord cried out,
“Who in the world
Who will grieve over you?
Who will stop long enough
to inquire about how you are doing?
15:6 I, the Lord, say:
You keep turning your back on me.’
So I have unleashed my power against you
I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!”
15:7 The Lord continued,
“In every town in the land I will purge them
like straw blown away by the wind.
I will destroy my people.
I will kill off their children.
I will do so because they did not change their behavior.
15:8 Their widows will become in my sight more numerous
than the grains of sand on the seashores.
At noontime I will bring a destroyer
against the mothers of their young men.
I will cause anguish
to fall suddenly upon them.
15:9 The mother who had seven children
All the breath will go out of her.
Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life.
It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day.
She will suffer shame and humiliation.
I will cause any of them who are still left alive
to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,”
says the Lord.