Jeremiah 5:12-19 - The Lord Rejects Israel

¹² "They have lied about the LORD by saying, "He wouldn't do that! Disaster won't come on us. We won't see sword and famine. ¹³ The prophets are nothing but wind, and the word is not in them. So may the disaster happen to them!'"

¹⁴ Therefore, this is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies says: "Because you people have said this, my words in your mouth will become a fire and these people the wood. The fire will destroy them. ¹⁵ People of Israel, I'm now bringing a nation from far away to attack you," declares the LORD. "It is an enduring nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know. And you won't understand what they say. ¹⁶ Their quiver is like an open grave, and all of them are powerful warriors. ¹⁷ "They'll devour your harvest and your food. They'll devour your sons and your daughters. They'll devour your vines and your fig trees. With their swords they'll batter down your fortified cities in which you trust.

¹⁸ "Yet even in those days," declares the LORD, "I won't destroy you completely. ¹⁹ When the people ask, "Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' you are to say to them, "Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'"