Jeremiah 29:15-17

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁵ ‘because you have said, “The LORD has raised up Prophets for us in Babel.”’

¹⁶ “Therefore thus says the LORD of the king who sits upon the throne of David, and of all the people who dwell in this city, your brethren, who have not gone forth with you into captivity,

¹⁷ “thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Behold, I will send the sword upon them, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.