Jeremiah 10:21-25

21For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the Lord’s advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been scattered.

22Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.

23Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.

24Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.

25Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.