Jeremiah 4:18-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ Your ways and your doings
    have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and it is bitter;
    it has reached your very heart.”

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
    Oh, the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
    I cannot keep silent;
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
    the alarm of war.
²⁰ Disaster follows hard on disaster,
    the whole land is laid waste.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed,
    my curtains in a moment.