Jeremiah 29:18-20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of cursing, and horror, and hissing, and a derision among all the nations where I have driven them, ¹⁹ because they did not heed my words, says the Lord, when I persistently sent to you my servants the prophets, but they^[a] would not listen, says the Lord. ²⁰ But now, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the word of the Lord: