Jeremiah 5:12-19 - The Lord Rejects Israel

¹² They have denied the LORD, and said, 'It is not he. Tush, there shall no misfortune come upon us; we shall see neither sword nor hunger.' ¹³ As for the warning of the Prophets, it is but wind; yea, there is not the word of God in them: such things shall happen unto themselves."

¹⁴ Wherefore thus sayeth the LORD God of Hosts, "Because ye speak such words, behold: The words that are in thy mouth will I turn to fire, and make the people to be wood, that it may consume them. ¹⁵ Lo, I will bring a people upon you from far, O house of Israel, sayeth the LORD; a mighty people, an old people, a people whose speech thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. ¹⁶ Their arrows are sudden death; yea, they themselves be very giants. ¹⁷ This people shall eat up thy fruit and thy meat; yea, they shall devour thy sons and thy daughters, thy sheep and thy bullocks. They shall eat up thy grapes and figs. As for thy strong and well-fenced cities, wherein thou didst trust, they shall destroy them with the sword.

¹⁸ Nevertheless, I will not then have done with you, sayeth the LORD. ¹⁹ But if they say, 'Wherefore doth the LORD our God all this unto us?' Then answer them, 'Because, that like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your own land, even so shall ye serve other gods also in a strange land!'"