Jeremiah 10:17-25

English Standard Version

^17 (A)Gather up your bundle from the ground,
    O you who dwell under siege!
¹⁸ For thus says the Lord:
^(B)“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land
    at this time,
^(C)and I will bring distress on them,
    that they may feel it.”

¹⁹ Woe is me because of my hurt!
    ^(D)My wound is grievous.
But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,
    and I must bear it.”
^20 (E)My tent is destroyed,
    and all my cords are broken;
my children have gone from me,
    ^(F)and they are not;
there is no one to spread my tent again
    and ^(G)to set up my curtains.
^21 (H)For the shepherds ^(I)are stupid
    and do not inquire of the Lord;
therefore they have not prospered,
    ^(J)and all their flock is scattered.

²² A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
    ^(K)a great commotion out of the north country
to make ^(L)the cities of Judah a desolation,
    ^(M)a lair of jackals.

^23 (N)I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself,
    that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
^24 (O)Correct me, O Lord, but in justice;
    not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

^25 (P)Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not,
    and on the peoples that call not on your name,
^(Q)for they have devoured Jacob;
    they have devoured him and consumed him,
    and have laid waste his habitation.