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Jeremiah’s Prayer

23 I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own.
    We are not able to plan our own course.
24 So correct me, Lord, but please be gentle.
    Do not correct me in anger, for I would die.
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you—
    on the peoples that do not call upon your name.
For they have devoured your people Israel[a];
    they have devoured and consumed them,
    making the land a desolate wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:25 Hebrew devoured Jacob. See note on 5:20.

23 I know, O Yahweh, that to the human is not his own way,
    nor to a person is the walking and the directing of his own step.
24 Chastise[a] me, O Yahweh, but in moderation,
    not in your anger, lest you eradicate me.
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you,
    and on the peoples that do not call on your name,
for they have devoured Jacob,
    they have devoured and consumed him,
    and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:24 Or “Discipline”