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Jeremiah 10:17 - 10:22


17
Gather up your bundle from the ground,
You who inhabit a land under siege!
18 For thus says Yahweh,
“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land
At this time,
And will cause them distress,
That they may find it.”

19
Woe is me, because of my injury!
My wound is desperately sick.
But I said, “Truly this is a sickness,
And I must bear it.”
20
My tent is destroyed,
And all my ropes are torn out;
My sons have gone from me and are no more.
There is no one to stretch out my tent again
Or to set up my curtains.
21
For the shepherds have become senseless
And have not sought Yahweh;
Therefore they have not prospered,
And all their flock is scattered.
22
The sound of a report! Behold, it comes—
A great quaking out of the land of the north—
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.