Jeremiah 5:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And when your people say, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” you shall say to them, “As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 16:13

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

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you are violated.

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, “I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.” Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, “I have not sinned.”

Jeremiah 2:13

for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become plunder?

Jeremiah 5:18

But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not make a full end of you.

Jeremiah 5:20

Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah:

Jeremiah 9:13

And the Lord says: Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accordance with it

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, so that they may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Jeremiah 17:4

By your own act you shall lose the heritage that I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.