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Jeremiah 10:17-25

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17Pick up your bundle from the ground,

You who live under siege!

18For this is what the Lord says:

“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land

And I will cause them distress,

So that they may be found.”

19Woe to me, because of my injury!

My wound is incurable.

But I said, “This certainly is a sickness,

And I must endure it.”

20My tent is destroyed,

And all my ropes are broken.

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.

21For the shepherds have become stupid

And have not sought the Lord.

Therefore they have not prospered,

And all their flock is scattered.

22The sound of a report! Behold, it is coming—

A great roar from the land of the north—

To make the cities of Judah

A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

23I know, Lord, that a person’s way is not in himself,

Nor is it in a person who walks to direct his steps.

24Correct me, Lord, but with justice;

Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You,

And on the families who do not call upon Your name;

For they have devoured Jacob;

They have devoured him and consumed him,

And have laid waste his settlement.