Jeremiah 30:12-17

The Voice

¹²     Your wound is incurable;
        your shattered pieces are beyond repair.
¹³     There is no one to plead your case—
        no healing for your injury,
        no relief for your affliction.
¹⁴     All of those allies you loved have forgotten about you;
        they care nothing about you.
    For I have struck you as an enemy would
        and punished you like the cruelest of foes.
    Why? Because your sins abound
        and your evil actions are abundant and brazen.
¹⁵     Why do you cry out over this wound,
        this pain that won’t go away?
    I have done these things to you because your sins abound
        and your wicked acts are abundant and brazen.
¹⁶     But all those who devour you will be devoured.
        Exile awaits each of your enemies.
    Those who plunder you will be turned into plunder,
        and all who prey upon you will be turned into prey.
¹⁷     For I will make you well again and heal your wounds
        I, the Eternal One, declare to you,
    Because they have called you an outcast:
        “Look, it is Zion, the one for whom no one cares.”