Jeremiah 15:6-8

Good News Translation

⁶ You people have rejected me;
    you have turned your backs on me.
So I reached out and crushed you
    because I was tired of controlling my anger.^[a]
7 In every town in the land
    I threw you to the wind like straw.
I destroyed you, my people,
    I killed your children
    because you did not stop your evil ways.
⁸ There are more widows in your land
    than grains of sand by the sea.
I killed your young men in their prime
    and made their mothers suffer.
I suddenly struck them
    with anguish and terror.