| Jeremiah 7:27Bible in Basic English 1965And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.See the chapter | 
Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.