Jeremiah 5:17-19

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷ This nation will eat your crops
    and livestock;
they will leave no fruit
    on your vines or fig trees.
And although you feel safe
    behind thick walls,
your towns will be destroyed
    and your children killed.

I am the Lord,
    but you abandoned me
and worshiped other gods
    in your own land.
Now you will be slaves
    in a foreign country.