I am the LORD God All-Powerful. Jeremiah, I will tell you exactly what to say. Your words will be a fire; Israel and Judah will be the fuel.
My words are a powerful fire; they are a hammer that shatters rocks.
The LORD reached out his hand, then he touched my mouth and said, “I am giving you the words to say,
That's why I slaughtered you with the words of my prophets. That's why my judgments blazed like the dawning sun.
But my warnings and my words spoken by the prophets caught up with your ancestors. So they turned back to me and said, “LORD All-Powerful, you have punished us for our sins, just as you had planned.”
The earth is under a curse; its people are dying out because of their sins.