Jeremiah 15:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
    or who will bemoan you?
Who will turn aside
    to ask about your welfare?
⁶ You have rejected me, says the Lord,
    you are going backwards;
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
    I am weary of relenting.
⁷ I have winnowed them with a winnowing-fork
    in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them, I have destroyed my people;
    they did not turn from their ways.