¹² No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

³⁶ And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

²⁰ For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

¹⁷ My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.

³ Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur.

⁴ For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.

¹⁰ Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

⁶⁵ And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

⁶⁶ Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain:

²⁰ And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

¹⁴ You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

¹⁸ Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;