Jeremiah 10:17-22

International Children’s Bible

Destruction Is Coming

¹⁷Get everything you own and prepare to leave.
    You people of Judah are trapped in the city by your enemies.
¹⁸This is what the Lord says:
    “At this time I will throw out the people of Judah who live in this land.
I will bring pain and trouble to them.
    And they will really feel it.”

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