Jehovah used Jeremiah to pronounce judgment on Jerusalem, saying: “This city, from the day that they built it, clear down to this day, has proved to be nothing but a cause of anger in me and a cause of rage in me, in order to remove it from before my face, on account of all the badness of the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah that they have done to offend me, they, their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ”
یَهُوَه از ارمیا برای اعلام داوری بر اورشلیم استفاده کرد و گفت :‏ « اینشهر از روزیکه آنرا بنا کردند تا امروز باعث هیجان خشم و غضب من بوده است تا آنرا از حضور خود دور اندازم ،‏ بسبب تمام شرارتیکه بنی‌اسرائیل و بنی‌یهودا ایشان و پادشاهان و سروران و کاهنان و انبیاء ایشان و مردان یهودا و ساکنان اورشلیم کرده خشم مرا بهیجان آورده‌اند .‏ »