Jeremiah 10:19-25 - The Nation Accepts Its Judgment

¹⁹ Woe to me because of my brokenness—
I am severely wounded!
I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,
but I must bear it.”
²⁰ My 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.
²¹ For the shepherds are stupid:
they don’t seek the Lord.
Therefore they have not prospered,
and their whole flock is scattered.
²² Listen! 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.

²³ I know, Lord,
that a man’s way of life is not his own;
no one who walks determines his own steps.
²⁴ Discipline me, Lord, but with justice—
not in Your anger,
or You will reduce me to nothing.
²⁵ Pour 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.