Jeremiah 29:15-17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁵ Because you have said, “The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,”— ¹⁶ Thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who live in this city, your kinsfolk who did not go out with you into exile: ¹⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts, I am going to let loose on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like rotten figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.