Jer 4:19-22, 5:1, 6, 15-17, 6:6-7, 7:9, 13:13-14, 15:1-4, 13-14, 17:27 | ESV | STEP | My anguish , my anguish ! I writhe in pain ! Oh the walls of my heart ! My heart is beating wildly ; I cannot keep silent , for I hear the sound of the trumpet , the alarm of war .

19 ^aMy anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.
20 ^bCrash follows hard on crash;
the whole land is laid waste.
^cSuddenly my tents are laid waste,
my curtains in a moment.
21 How long must I see the standard
and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 “For ^dmy people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
^eThey are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not.”

Jeremiah 5:1

Jerusalem Refused to Repent

1 ^fRun to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
look and take note!
Search her squares to see
^gif you can find a man,
one who does justice
and seeks truth,
^hthat I may pardon her.

Jeremiah 5:6

6 Therefore ⁱa lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a ^jwolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^kA leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their ^lapostasies are great.

Jeremiah 5:15-17

15 ^mBehold, I am bringing against you
a nation from afar, O house of Israel,

declares the Lord.
It is an enduring nation;
it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know,
ⁿnor can you understand what they say.
16 ^oTheir quiver is like ^pan open tomb;
they are all mighty warriors.
17 ^qThey shall eat up your harvest and your food;
they shall eat up your sons and your daughters;
they shall eat up your flocks and your herds;
they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
your ^rfortified cities in which you trust
they shall beat down with the sword.”

Jeremiah 6:6-7

6 For thus says the Lord of hosts:
^s“Cut down her trees;
^tcast up a siege mound against Jerusalem.
This is the city that must be ^upunished;
there is nothing but oppression within her.
7 ^vAs a well keeps its water fresh,
so she keeps fresh her evil;
^wviolence and destruction are heard within her;
sickness and wounds are ever before me.

Jeremiah 7:9

9 ^xWill you steal, murder, commit adultery, ^yswear falsely, ^zmake offerings to Baal, ^aaand go after other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 13:13-14

13 Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^abBehold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: ^acthe kings who sit on David’s throne, ^adthe priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 14 And I will ^aedash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”

Jeremiah 15:1-4

The Lord Will Not Relent

1 Then the Lord said to me, ^af“Though ^agMoses ^ahand Samuel ^aistood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! 2 And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

^aj“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’
3 ^akI will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and ^althe birds of the air ^amand the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4 ^anAnd I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what ^aoManasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 15:13-14

13 ^ap“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as ^aqspoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. 14 I will make you serve your enemies ^arin a land that you do not know, ^asfor in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”

Jeremiah 17:27

27 But if you do not listen to me, to ^atkeep the Sabbath day holy, ^auand not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will ^avkindle a fire in its gates, and it shall ^awdevour the palaces of Jerusalem and ^axshall not be quenched.’”