[People] will call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them."

Then the LORD said to me, "[Even] if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind [would] not [be] favorable toward this people. Cast [them] out of My sight, and let them go forth.

Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His sight.

When God heard [this,] He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

Why have You broken down her hedges, So that all who pass by the way pluck her [fruit?]

The boar out of the woods uproots it, And the wild beast of the field devours it.

But You have cast off and abhorred, You have been furious with Your anointed.

Unless You have utterly rejected us, [And] are very angry with us!

I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.

"LORD, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life"?

Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; It cries out against Me; Therefore I have hated it.

I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

Then I said, "I will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other's flesh."

[Is there] no balm in Gilead, [Is there] no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?

Why is my pain perpetual And my wound incurable, [Which] refuses to be healed? Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream, [As] waters [that] fail?

But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till [there was] no remedy.

How shall I console you? To what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin [is] spread wide as the sea; Who can heal you?

"[We] looked for peace, but no good [came;] And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

But when I looked for good, evil came [to me;] And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

Still our eyes failed us, [Watching] vainly for our help; In our watching we watched For a nation [that] could not save [us.]

For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.