17 Gather up your belongings to leave the land,
you who live under siege. |
18 For this is what the LORD says:
"At this time I will hurl out
those who live in this land;
I will bring distress on them
so that they may be captured." |
19 Woe to me because of my injury!
My wound is incurable!
Yet I said to myself,
"This is my sickness, and I must endure it." |
20 My tent is destroyed;
all its ropes are snapped.
My sons are gone from me and are no more;
no one is left now to pitch my tent
or to set up my shelter. |
21 The shepherds are senseless
and do not inquire of the LORD ;
so they do not prosper
and all their flock is scattered. |
22 Listen! The report is coming-
a great commotion from the land of the north!
It will make the towns of Judah desolate,
a haunt of jackals. |
23 I know, O LORD , that a man's life is not his own;
it is not for man to direct his steps. |
24 Correct me, LORD , but only with justice-
not in your anger,
lest you reduce me to nothing. |
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations
that do not acknowledge you,
on the peoples who do not call on your name.
For they have devoured Jacob;
they have devoured him completely
and destroyed his homeland. |
