Jeremiah 5:19

New Living Translation

“And when your people ask, ‘Why did the Lord our God do all this to us?’ you must reply, ‘You rejected him and gave yourselves to foreign gods in your own land. Now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:22

You may ask yourself, “Why is all this happening to me?” It is because of your many sins! That is why you have been stripped and raped by invading armies.

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you out of this land and send you into a foreign land where you and your ancestors have never been. There you can worship idols day and night—and I will grant you no favors!’

Jeremiah 17:4

The wonderful possession I have reserved for you will slip from your hands. I will tell your enemies to take you as captives to a foreign land. For my anger blazes like a fire that will burn forever.”

Jeremiah 2:13

“For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me— the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!

Jeremiah 2:14

“Why has Israel become a slave? Why has he been carried away as plunder?

Jeremiah 2:35

And yet you say, ‘I have done nothing wrong. Surely God isn’t angry with me!’ But now I will punish you severely because you claim you have not sinned.

Jeremiah 5:18

“Yet even in those days I will not blot you out completely,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:20

“Make this announcement to Israel, and say this to Judah:

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it to others? Why has the land been so ruined that no one dares to travel through it?

Jeremiah 9:13

The Lord replies, “This has happened because my people have abandoned my instructions; they have refused to obey what I said.

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.