2-4. “Jeremiah, don’t get married. Don’t raise a family here. I have signed the death warrant on all the children born in this country, the mothers who bear them and the fathers who beget them—an epidemic of death. Death unlamented, the dead unburied, dead bodies decomposing and stinking like dung, all the killed and starved corpses served up as meals for carrion crows and mongrel dogs!”
18. “They won’t get by with a thing. They’ll pay double for everything they did wrong. They’ve made a complete mess of things, littering their lives with their obscene no-gods, leaving piles of stinking god-junk all over the place.”
19-20. God, my strength, my stronghold,my safe retreat when trouble descends:The godless nations will comefrom earth’s four corners, saying,“Our ancestors lived on lies,useless illusions, all smoke.”Can mortals manufacture gods?Their factories turn out no-gods!
21. “Watch closely now. I’m going to teach these wrongheaded people.Starting right now, I’m going to teach themWho I am and what I do,teach them the meaning of my name, God—‘I Am.’”