Jeremiah 5:19

New American Bible - revised edition

And when they ask, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” say to them, “As you have abandoned me to serve foreign gods in your own land, so shall you serve foreigners in a land not your own.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:22

If you say to yourself: “Why have these things happened to me?” For your great guilt your skirts are stripped away and you are violated.

Jeremiah 16:13

I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have known; there you can serve other gods day and night because I will not show you mercy. Return from Exile.

Jeremiah 17:4

You will relinquish your hold on your heritage which I have given you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know: For a fire has broken out from my anger, burning forever.

Jeremiah 2:13

Two evils my people have done: they have forsaken me, the source of living waters; They have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a slave, a house-born servant? Why then has he become plunder?

Jeremiah 2:35

Nonetheless you say, “I am innocent; at least, his anger is turned away from me.” Listen! I will judge you on that word of yours, “I have not sinned.”

Jeremiah 5:18

Yet even in those days—oracle of the Lord—I will not completely destroy you.

Jeremiah 5:20

Announce this to the house of Jacob, proclaim it in Judah:

Jeremiah 9:12

The Lord said: Because they have abandoned my law, which I set before them, and did not listen to me or follow it,

Jeremiah 9:13

but followed instead their stubborn hearts and the Baals, as their ancestors had taught them,

Lamentations 5:8

Servants rule over us, with no one to tear us from their hands.