Jeremiah 5:14-16

New International Reader's Version

“The people have spoken these words.
    So my words will be like fire in your mouth.
I will make the people like wood.
    And the fire will burn them up.”

¹⁵ “People of Israel, listen to me,”
    announces the Lord.
“I am bringing against you
    a nation from far away.
It is an old nation. And it will last for a long time.
    Its people speak a language you do not know.
    You can’t understand what they are saying.
¹⁶ The bags they carry their arrows in are like an open grave.
    All their soldiers are mighty.