Jeremiah 12:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹ My people are like a hawk
surrounded and attacked
    by other hawks.^[a]
Tell the wild animals
    to come and eat their fill.
¹⁰ My beautiful land is ruined
    like a field or a vineyard
trampled by shepherds
and stripped bare
    by their flocks.
¹¹ Every field I see lies barren,
    and no one cares.