Jeremiah 6:9-12

New Century Version

“Gather the few people of Israel who are left alive,
    as you would gather the last grapes on a grapevine.
Check each vine again,
    like someone who gathers grapes.”

¹⁰ To whom can I speak? Whom can I warn?
    Who will listen to me?
The people of Israel have closed ears,
    so they cannot hear my warnings.
They don’t like the word of the Lord;
    they don’t want to listen to it!
¹¹ But I am full of the anger of the Lord,
    and I am tired of holding it in.

“Pour out my anger on the children who play in the street
    and on the young men gathered together.
A husband and his wife will both be caught in his anger,
    as will the very old.
¹² Their houses will be turned over to others,
    along with their fields and wives,
because I will raise my hand
    and punish the people of Judah,” says the Lord.