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I must certainly punish them for what they have done.
    I will pay back this wicked nation for their sins.’

That is what the Lord says.

Jeremiah is sad

10 ‘I will weep for the mountains.
    I will cry for the fields in the wilderness.
There is no grass for the animals to eat.
    Nobody travels through those places.
There is no sound of cows and sheep.
    The birds and the wild animals have all disappeared.’

11 The Lord replied,

‘I will make Jerusalem a heap of stones.
    Only wild animals will live there.
I will destroy the towns of Judah
    so that nobody can live in them.’

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