Jeremiah 29:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth. They will be an object of cursing and horror, of scorn and derision, to all the nations among whom I have driven them. ¹⁹ For they refused to listen to my words, says the Lord, despite the fact that I persisted in sending them my servants the prophets. They continued in their stubbornness and refused to listen, says the Lord.

²⁰ But now, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the voice of the Lord.