Jeremiah 16:9-11

English Standard Version

⁹ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(A)Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

¹⁰ “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ^(B)‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ ¹¹ then you shall say to them: ^(C)‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and ^(D)have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,