Jeremiah 6:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁰ To whom shall I speak and give warning,
    that they may hear?
See, their ears are closed,^[a]
    they cannot listen.
The word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
    they take no pleasure in it.
¹¹ But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
    I am weary of holding it in.

Pour it out on the children in the street,
    and on the gatherings of young men as well;
both husband and wife shall be taken,
    the old folk and the very aged.
¹² Their houses shall be turned over to others,
    their fields and wives together;
for I will stretch out my hand
    against the inhabitants of the land,
says the Lord.