Jeremiah 29:18-20

International Standard Version

¹⁸ I’ll pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with plague, and I’ll make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. I’ll make them^[a] a curse, an object of horror, and scorn,^[b] and a desolation in all the nations to which I’ve driven them, ¹⁹ because they didn’t listen to my words,’ declares the Lord. ‘When I sent my servants, the prophets, to you again and again,^[c] you didn’t listen,’ declares the Lord.

²⁰ “Now, all you exiles whom I sent from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from the Lord!