Jeremiah 5:10-18

¹⁰ Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they 'are' not Jehovah's, ¹¹ For dealt treacherously against Me have the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah. ¹² They have lied against Jehovah, And they say, ''It is' not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see. ¹³ And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,'—thus it is done by them. ¹⁴ Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, Because of your speaking this word, Lo, I am making My words in thy mouth become fire, And this people wood, and it hath devoured them. ¹⁵ Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation—strong it 'is', a nation—from of old it 'is', A nation—thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh. ¹⁶ Its quiver 'is' as an open sepulchre, All of them—mighty ones. ¹⁷ And it hath consumed thy harvest and thy bread, They consume thy sons, and thy daughters, It consumeth thy flock, and thy herd, It consumeth thy vine, and thy fig-tree, It maketh poor thy fenced cities, In which thou art trusting—by the sword. ¹⁸ And even in those days, an affirmation of Jehovah, I do not make you a completion.