Jeremiah 5:12-19 - The Lord Rejects Israel

¹² They have lied about the Lord
And said, “Not He;
Misfortune will not come on us,
And we will not see sword or famine.
¹³ “The prophets are as wind,
And the word is not in them.
Thus it will be done to them!”

¹⁴ Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts,
“Because you have spoken this word,
Behold, I am making My words in your mouth fire
And this people wood, and it will consume them.
¹⁵ “Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel,” declares the Lord.
“It is an enduring nation,
It is an ancient nation,
A nation whose language you do not know,
Nor can you understand what they say.
¹⁶ “Their quiver is like an open grave,
All of them are mighty men.
¹⁷ “They will devour your harvest and your food;
They will devour your sons and your daughters;
They will devour your flocks and your herds;
They will devour your vines and your fig trees;
They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

¹⁸ “Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not make you a complete destruction. ¹⁹ It shall come about when they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ then you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’