Jeremiah 15:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ You have rejected me, says the Lord,
    you are going backward;
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.
⁸ Their widows became more numerous
    than the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of youths
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon her suddenly.