Jeremiah 10:17-22
Christian Standard Bible
Exile after the Siege
18 For this is what the Lord says:
Look, I am flinging away(B)
the land’s residents at this time
and bringing them such distress
that they will feel it.
Jeremiah Grieves
19 Woe to me because of my brokenness—
I am severely wounded!(C)
I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,
but I must bear it.”
20 My tent is destroyed;(D)
all my tent cords are snapped.
My sons have departed from me and are no more.
I have no one to pitch my tent again
or to hang up my curtains.
21 For the shepherds are stupid:
They don’t seek the Lord.(E)
Therefore they have not prospered,
and their whole flock is scattered.
22 Listen! A noise—it is coming—
a great commotion(F) from the land to the north.
The cities of Judah will be made desolate,
a jackals’ den.(G)
Footnotes
- 10:17 Lit bundle
Jeremiah 10:17-22
English Standard Version
17 (A)Gather up your bundle from the ground,
O you who dwell under siege!
18 For thus says the Lord:
(B)“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land
at this time,
(C)and I will bring distress on them,
that they may feel it.”
19 Woe is me because of my hurt!
(D)My wound is grievous.
But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,
and I must bear it.”
20 (E)My tent is destroyed,
and all my cords are broken;
my children have gone from me,
(F)and they are not;
there is no one to spread my tent again
and (G)to set up my curtains.
21 (H)For the shepherds (I)are stupid
and do not inquire of the Lord;
therefore they have not prospered,
(J)and all their flock is scattered.
22 A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
(K)a great commotion out of the north country
to make (L)the cities of Judah a desolation,
(M)a lair of jackals.
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