Jeremiah 29:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶ “But this is what the Lord says about the king who sits on David’s throne, and about the people who live in this city—your brothers who didn’t go with you into exile: ¹⁷ This is what the Lord says: ‘I’m about to send the sword, famine, and plague on them, and I’ll make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten because they’re so bad. ¹⁸ I’ll pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with plague, and I’ll make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. I’ll make them^[a] a curse, an object of horror, and scorn,^[b] and a desolation in all the nations to which I’ve driven them,