Jeremiah 4:18-20

New Century Version

¹⁸ “The way you have lived and acted
    has brought this trouble to you.
This is your punishment.
    How terrible it is!
    The pain stabs your heart!”

¹⁹ Oh, how I hurt! How I hurt!
    I am bent over in pain.
Oh, the torture in my heart!
    My heart is pounding inside me.
    I cannot keep quiet,
because I have heard the sound of the trumpet.
    I have heard the shouts of war.
²⁰ Disaster follows disaster;
    the whole country has been destroyed.
My tents are destroyed in only a moment.
    My curtains are torn down quickly.