Jeremiah 5:18-20

New Living Translation

¹⁸“Yet even in those days I will not blot you out completely,” says the Lord. ¹⁹“And when your people ask, ‘Why did the Lord our God do all this to us?’ you must reply, ‘You rejected him and gave yourselves to foreign gods in your own land. Now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’

A Warning for God’s People

²⁰“Make this announcement to Israel,^[a]
and say this to Judah:

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Footnotes

5:20 Hebrew to the house of Jacob. The names “Jacob” and “Israel” are often interchanged throughout the Old Testament, referring sometimes to the individual patriarch and sometimes to the nation.

Jeremiah 5:18-20

New International Version

¹⁸“Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not destroy^(A) you completely. ¹⁹And when the people ask,^(B) ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods^(C) in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners^(D) in a land not your own.’