Jeremiah 5:19

New English Translation

“So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ tell them, ‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:22

You will probably ask yourself, ‘Why have these things happened to me? Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’ It is because you have sinned so much.

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’”

Jeremiah 17:4

You will lose your hold on the land which I gave to you as a permanent possession. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out.”

Jeremiah 2:13

“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

Jeremiah 2:14

“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, ‘I have not done anything wrong, so the Lord cannot really be angry with me any more.’ But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not committed any sin.’

Jeremiah 5:18

Yet even then I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:20

“Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.

Jeremiah 9:12

I said, “Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? Who has a word from the Lord that can explain it? Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?”

Jeremiah 9:13

The Lord answered, “This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.