Jeremiah 10:17-25

17Gather up your belongings from the ground, you who live under siege.

18For this is what the Lord says: Look, I am flinging away the land’s residents at this time and bringing them such distress that they will feel it.

19Woe to me because of my brokenness — I am severely wounded! I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering, but I must bear it.”

20My tent is destroyed; all my tent cords are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one to pitch my tent again or to hang up my curtains.

21For the shepherds are stupid: They don’t seek the Lord. Therefore they have not prospered, and their whole flock is scattered.

22Listen! A noise — it is coming — a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made desolate, a jackals’ den.

23I know, Lord, that a person’s way of life is not his own; no one who walks determines his own steps.

24Discipline me, Lord, but with justice — not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.

25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t recognize you and on the families that don’t call on your name, for they have consumed Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off and made his homeland desolate.