Jeremiah 16:10-18

“When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, ‘Why has the Lord declared all this terrible disaster against us?  What is our iniquity? What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? ’ Then you will answer them, ‘Because your ancestors abandoned me   — this is the Lord’s declaration — and followed other gods, served them, and bowed in worship to them.  Indeed, they abandoned me and did not keep my instruction. You did more evil than your ancestors.  Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me. So I will hurl you from this land into a land that you and your ancestors have not known.  There you will worship other gods  both day and night, for I will not grant you grace.’  “However, look, the days are coming”   — the Lord’s declaration — “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’  but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north  and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors.  “I am about to send for many fishermen”   — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks, for my gaze takes in all their ways.  They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight. I will first repay them double for their iniquity  and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.”