Jeremiah 5:17-19
Christian Standard Bible
17 They will consume your harvest and your food.(A)
They will consume your sons and your daughters.
They will consume your flocks and your herds.
They will consume your vines and your fig trees.
With the sword they will destroy
your fortified cities(B) in which you trust.
18 “But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off.(C) 19 When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You will respond to them, ‘Just as you abandoned me(D) and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’(E)
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