Jeremiah 5:12-19 - The Lord Rejects Israel

¹² They have contradicted the Lord
and insisted, “It won’t happen.
Harm won’t come to us;
we won’t see sword or famine.”
¹³ The prophets become only wind,
for the Lord’s word is not in them.
This will in fact happen to them.

¹⁴ Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Hosts says:

Because you have spoken this word,
I am going to make My words
become fire in your mouth.
These people are the wood,
and the fire will consume them.
¹⁵ I am about to bring a nation
from far away against you,
house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
It is an established nation,
an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know
and whose speech you do not understand.
¹⁶ Their quiver is like an open grave;
they are all mighty warriors.
¹⁷ They will consume your harvest and your food.
They will consume your sons and your daughters.
They will consume your flocks and your herds.
They will consume your vines and your fig trees.
They will destroy with the sword
your fortified cities in which you trust.

¹⁸ “But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off. ¹⁹ When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You will respond to them: Just as you abandoned Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.