Jeremiah 12:9-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁹ My own people have become like
    a dying animal surrounded by vultures.
These birds are circling around her.
    Come on, wild animals.
    Come get something to eat.
¹⁰ Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard.
    They have trampled the plants in my field.
    They have made my beautiful field a desert.
¹¹ They have turned it into an empty desert.
    It is dry and dead.
The whole land has been ruined,
    and no one is left to care for it.