Jeremiah 5:12-19 - The Lord Rejects Israel

¹² They have denied LORD, and said, It is not he. Neither shall evil come upon us, nor shall we see sword nor famine. ¹³ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.

¹⁴ Therefore thus says LORD, the God of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. ¹⁵ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says LORD. It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou know not, nor understand what they say. ¹⁶ Their quiver is an open sepulcher. They are all mighty men. ¹⁷ And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat. They shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds. They shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees. They shall beat down thy fortified cities,

¹⁸ But even in those days, says LORD, I will not make a full end with you. ¹⁹ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why has LORD our God done all these things to us? Then thou shall say to them, Just as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so ye shall serve strangers in a land t