Jeremiah 15:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ You have rejected me, says the Lord,
    and you have turned your back on me.
Therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you
    in order to destroy you;
    I am weary of having compassion for you.
⁷ I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork
    at every city gate in the land.
I have brought bereavement and destruction on my people
    because they would not abandon their evil ways.
⁸ I have made their widows more numerous
    than the sands of the sea.
I brought a destroyer at noonday
    against the mothers of young men.
Without warning, I afflicted them
    with anguish and terror.