Jeremiah 10:17-22

New International Version

Coming Destruction

¹⁷Gather up your belongings^(A) to leave the land,
    you who live under siege.
¹⁸For this is what the Lord says:
    “At this time I will hurl^(B) out
    those who live in this land;
I will bring distress^(C) on them
    so that they may be captured.”

¹⁹Woe to me because of my injury!
    My wound^(D) is incurable!
Yet I said to myself,
    “This is my sickness, and I must endure^(E) it.”
²⁰My tent^(F) is destroyed;
    all its ropes are snapped.
My children are gone from me and are no more;^(G)
    no one is left now to pitch my tent
    or to set up my shelter.
²¹The shepherds^(H) are senseless^(I)
    and do not inquire of the Lord;^(J)
so they do not prosper^(K)
    and all their flock is scattered.^(L)
²²Listen! The report is coming—
    a great commotion from the land of the north!^(M)
It will make the towns of Judah desolate,^(N)
    a haunt of jackals.^(O)

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Jeremiah 10:17-22

New American Standard Bible

¹⁷^(A)Pick up your bundle from the ground,
You who live under siege!
¹⁸For this is what the Lord says:
“Behold, I am ^(B)slinging out the inhabitants of the land
At this time,
And I will cause them distress,
So that they may ^[a]be found.”

¹⁹^(C)Woe to me, because of my ^[b]injury!
My ^(D)wound is incurable.
But I said, “This certainly is a sickness,
And I ^(E)must endure it.”
²⁰My ^(F)tent is destroyed,
And all my ropes are broken.
My ^(G)sons have gone from me and are no more.
There is ^(H)no one to stretch out my tent again
Or to set up my curtains.
²¹For the shepherds have become stupid
And ^(I)have not sought the Lord.
Therefore they have not prospered,
And ^(J)all their flock is scattered.
²²The sound of a ^(K)report! Behold, it is coming—
A great roar ^(L)from the land of the north—
To ^(M)make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.