Jeremiah 5:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.

¹⁸ Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.

¹⁹ And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? Thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.