Jeremiah 33:5
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
The verse belongs to the closing years of Judah's apostasy, when the armies of the Chaldeans came for the third and last time to besiege Jerusalem and hope had fled from every heart. Jeremiah had predicted utter ruin and had been thrown into prison for insisting on surrender, and he was kept under close surveillance by those who scorned his messages. Fighting against the Chaldeans would not save the city but would fill it with the dead bodies of men whom God had slain in His anger and fury because of wickedness for which He had hidden His face from the city.
The city's destruction was a judgment, but the promise of deliverance and restoration that follows shows that this judgment was not the end of God's purpose for His people. Even then God did not leave the faithful remnant still in the city to hopeless despair but gave Jeremiah fresh revelation. That revelation declares Heaven's willingness to forgive and to save, and it has been an unfailing source of comfort to the church of God from that day to this.