TSK · Jeremiah 20:4

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

Any man of yours that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause his eyes to fail and will cause him grief. All of those born to your family will die by the sword of man.

Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused to pay any attention to what I have said!’”

I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.

So I, the LORD, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.

“I am the LORD, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.

The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

They will sing this lament over you:“‘How you have perished– you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!