Jeremiah 15:6-8

New Century Version

⁶ Jerusalem, you have left me,” says the Lord.
    “You keep going farther and farther away,
so I have taken hold of you and destroyed you.
    I was tired of holding back my anger.
⁷ I have separated the people of Judah with my pitchfork
    and scattered them at the city gates of the land.
My people haven’t changed their ways.
    So I have destroyed them
    and taken away their children.
⁸ There are more widows than grains of sand in the sea.
I brought a destroyer at noontime
    against the mothers of the young men of Judah.
I suddenly brought pain and fear
    on the people of Judah.