Jeremiah 15:5-7

Good News Translation

“Who will pity you, people of Jerusalem,
    and who will grieve over you?
Who will stop long enough
    to ask how you are?
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.