Jeremiah 5:18-20

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁸ “But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off.^{(A) 19} When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You will respond to them: Just as you abandoned Me^(B) and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.^(C)

²⁰ “Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah, saying: