Jeremiah 12:7-13 - The Lord's Sorrow Because Of His People

⁷ I have abandoned My house;
I have deserted My inheritance.
I have given the love of My life
into the hands of her enemies.
⁸ My inheritance has acted toward Me
like a lion in the forest.
She has roared against Me.
Therefore, I hate her.
⁹ Is My inheritance like a hyena to Me?
Are birds of prey circling her?
Go, gather all the wild animals;
bring them to devour her.
¹⁰ Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard;
they have trampled My plot of land.
They have turned My desirable plot
into a desolate wasteland.
¹¹ They have made it a desolation.
It mourns, desolate, before Me.
All the land is desolate,
but no one takes it to heart.
¹² Over all the barren heights in the wilderness
the destroyers have come,
for the Lord has a sword that devours
from one end of the earth to the other.
No one has peace.
¹³ They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.
Be put to shame by your harvests
because of the Lord’s burning anger.