Jeremiah 5:10–18

¹⁰“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.↗

¹¹For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says the LORD.↗

¹²They have denied the LORD, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.↗

¹³The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”↗

¹⁴Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.↗

¹⁵Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.↗

¹⁶Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.↗

¹⁷They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.↗

¹⁸“But even in those days,” says the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.↗