Jeremiah 15:5-7

New Century Version

⁵ “Who will feel sorry for you, Jerusalem?
    Who will be sad and cry for you?
    Who will go out of his way to ask how you are?
⁶ Jerusalem, you have left me,” says the Lord.
    “You keep going farther and farther away,
so I have taken hold of you and destroyed you.
    I was tired of holding back my anger.
⁷ I have separated the people of Judah with my pitchfork
    and scattered them at the city gates of the land.
My people haven’t changed their ways.
    So I have destroyed them
    and taken away their children.