Jeremiah 5:19

New International Version

And when the people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?”— it is because of your many sins that your skirts have been torn off and your body mistreated.

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

Jeremiah 17:4

Through your own fault you will lose the inheritance I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for you have kindled my anger, and it will burn forever.”

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, ‘I am innocent; he is not angry with me.’ But I will pass judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Jeremiah 5:18

“Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not destroy you completely.

Jeremiah 5:20

“Announce this to the descendants of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?

Jeremiah 9:13

The Lord said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.