Jeremiah 10:17-22

New Century Version

Destruction Is Coming

¹⁷Get everything you own and prepare to leave,
    you people who are trapped by your enemies.
¹⁸This is what the Lord says:
    “At this time I will throw out the people who live in this land.
I will bring trouble to them
    so that they may be captured.”

¹⁹How terrible it will be for me because of my injury.
    My wound cannot be healed.
Yet I told myself,
    “This is my sickness; I must suffer through it.”
²⁰My tent is ruined,
    and all its ropes are broken.
My children have gone away and left me.
    No one is left to put up my tent again
    or to set up a shelter for me.
²¹The shepherds are stupid
    and don’t ask the Lord for advice.
So they do not have success,
    and all their flocks are scattered and lost.
²²Listen! The news is coming.
    A loud noise comes from the north
to make the towns of Judah an empty desert
    and a home for wild dogs!