Jeremiah 29:15-17

New Century Version

¹⁵ You might say, “The Lord has given us prophets here in Babylon.”

¹⁶ But the Lord says this about the king who is sitting on David’s throne now and all the other people still in Jerusalem, your relatives who did not go as captives to Babylon with you. ¹⁷ The Lord All-Powerful says: “I will soon send war, hunger, and terrible diseases against those still in Jerusalem. I will make them like bad figs that are too rotten to eat.