Jeremiah 5:12

Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says the LORD.

The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.

Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.