Jeremiah 10:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹ The people answered,
“We are wounded
    and doomed to die.
Why did we say
    we could stand the pain?
²⁰ Our homes are destroyed;
    our children are dead.
No one is left
    to help us find shelter.”

²¹ But I told them,
“Our leaders were stupid failures,
    because they refused
    to listen to the Lord.
And so we've been scattered
    like sheep.