Jeremiah 5:17-19

International Children’s Bible

¹⁷They will eat your crops and your food.
    They will eat your sons and daughters.
They will eat your flocks and herds.
    They will eat your grapes and figs.
They will destroy with their swords
    the strong, walled cities you trust in!

¹⁸“Yet even then,” says the Lord, “I will not destroy you completely. ¹⁹The people of Judah will ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done this terrible thing to us?’ Give them this answer: ‘You have left the Lord. You have served foreign idols in your own land. So now you will serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you!’

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