Jeremiah 29:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ The Lord Almighty says, ‘I am bringing war, starvation, and disease on them, and I will make them like figs that are too rotten to be eaten. ¹⁸ I will pursue them with war, starvation, and disease, and all the nations of the world will be horrified at what they see. Everywhere I scatter them, people will be shocked and terrified at what has happened to them. People will make fun of them and use their name as a curse. ¹⁹ This will happen to them because they did not obey the message that I kept on sending to them through my servants the prophets. They refused to listen.