16. Their quivers are like open graves;all of them are warriors.
17. They will devour your harvest and your bread,devour your sons and your daughters,Devour your sheep and cattle,devour your vines and fig trees;With their swords they will beat downthe fortified cities in which you trust.
18. Yet even in those days—oracle of the Lord—I will not completely destroy you.
19. And when they ask, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” say to them, “As you have abandoned me to serve foreign gods in your own land, so shall you serve foreigners in a land not your own.”
20. Announce this to the house of Jacob,proclaim it in Judah: