Jeremiah 5:19

Contemporary English Version 1995

And the people who survive will ask, “Why did the Lord our God do such terrible things to us?” Then tell them: I am the Lord, but you abandoned me and worshiped other gods in your own land. Now you will be slaves in a foreign country.

Cross References

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you into a land that you and your ancestors know nothing about, a place where you will have to worship other gods both day and night. And I won't feel the least bit sorry for you.

Jeremiah 13:22

Do you know why your clothes were torn off and you were abused? It was because of your terrible sins.

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves are now our rulers, and there is no one to set us free.

Jeremiah 2:35

you claim to be innocent, and you want me to stop being angry with you. So I'll take you to court, and we'll see who is right.

Jeremiah 2:13

You, my people, have sinned in two ways— you have rejected me, the source of life-giving water, and you've tried to collect water in cracked and leaking pits dug in the ground.

Jeremiah 2:14

People of Israel, you weren't born slaves; you were captured in war.

Jeremiah 5:18

The Lord said: Jeremiah, the enemy army won't kill everyone in Judah.

Jeremiah 5:20

Tell these things to each other, you people of Judah, you descendants of Jacob.

Jeremiah 9:13

The Lord said: I destroyed the land because the people disobeyed me and rejected my laws and teachings.

Jeremiah 9:12

I said to the Lord, “None of us can understand why the land has become like an uncrossable desert. Won't you explain why?”

Jeremiah 17:4

You will lose the land that I gave you, and I will make you slaves in a foreign country, because you have made my anger blaze up like a fire that won't stop burning.