Jeremiah 15:6-8

International Children’s Bible

⁶ Jerusalem, you have left me,” says the Lord.
    “You keep going farther and farther away.
So I will take hold of you and destroy you.
    I am tired of holding back my anger.
⁷ I will separate the people of Judah with my pitchfork.
    I will scatter them at the city gates of the land.
My people haven’t changed their ways.
    So I will destroy them.
    I will take away their children.
⁸ Many women will lose their husbands.
    There will be more widows than the sand of the sea.
I will bring a destroyer at noontime
    against the mothers of the young men of Judah.
I will suddenly bring pain and fear
    on the people of Judah.