18 The Lord says, “Yet even in those days I will not completely destroy my people.
19 When they ask why I did all these things, tell them, Jeremiah, that just as they turned away from me and served foreign gods in their own land, so they will serve strangers in a land that is not theirs.”
20 The Lord says, “Tell the descendants of Jacob, tell the people of Judah:
21 Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.
22 I am the Lord; why don't you fear me? Why don't you tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, a permanent boundary that it cannot cross. The sea may toss, but it cannot go beyond it; the waves may roar, but they cannot break through.
23 But you people! You are stubborn and rebellious; you have turned aside and left me.
24 You never thought to honor me, even though I send the autumn rains and the spring rains and give you the harvest season each year.