Jeremiah 29:15-17

Good News Translation

¹⁵ “You say that the Lord has given you prophets in Babylonia. ¹⁶ Listen to what the Lord says about the king who rules the kingdom that David ruled and about the people of this city, that is, your relatives who were not taken away as prisoners with you. 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.