[5:12] The Lord's people have denied him and have said, “He won't really do anything. We won't have hard times; we won't have war or famine.”
[5:15] People of Israel, the Lord is bringing a nation from far away to attack you. It is a strong and ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know.
[5:16] Their archers are mighty soldiers who kill without mercy.
[5:17] They will devour your crops and your food; they will kill your sons and your daughters. They will slaughter your flocks and your herds and destroy your vines and fig trees. The fortified cities in which you trust will be destroyed by their army.
[5:18] The Lord says, “Yet even in those days I will not completely destroy my people.
[5:19] When they ask why I did all these things, tell them, Jeremiah, that just as they turned away from me and served foreign gods in their own land, so they will serve strangers in a land that is not theirs.”