Jeremiah 5:19

Catholic Public Domain Version

And if they say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' You shall say to them: 'Just as you have abandoned me and have served a strange god in your own land, so will you serve strangers in a land not your own.'

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:22

But if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things happened to me?' it is because of the greatness of your iniquity that your shame has been uncovered and the soles of your feet have been defiled.

Jeremiah 16:13

And so, I will cast you out of this land, into a land that you do not know, and that your fathers did not know. And in that place, you will serve, day and night, strange gods who will not give you rest.

Jeremiah 17:4

And you will be left behind without your inheritance, which I gave to you. And I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land that you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in my fury; it shall burn, even unto eternity."

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that are unable to hold water.

Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant, or one born into slavery? Then why has he become a prey?

Jeremiah 2:35

And you have said: 'I am innocent and without sin. And because of this, let your fury be turned away from me.' Behold, I will contend with you in judgment, because you have said: 'I have not sinned.'

Jeremiah 5:18

Yet truly, in those days, says the Lord, I will not bring the consummation over you.

Jeremiah 5:20

Announce this to the house of Jacob, and make it known in Judah, saying:

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man who understands this, and to whom a word from the mouth of the Lord may be given, so that he may announce this: why the land has perished, and has been scorched like a desert, so much so that no one passes through it?"

Jeremiah 9:13

And the Lord said: "It is because they have abandoned my law, which I gave to them, and they have not listened to my voice, and they have not walked by it.

Lamentations 5:8

Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.