Jeremiah 5:18 BBE

¹⁶  Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

¹⁷  They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

¹⁸  But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.

¹⁹  And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.

²⁰  Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,