Jeremiah 10:19-25 - The Nation Accepts Its Judgment
19 Wo to me for my breaking! my blow was sickly; and I said, Surely this a sickness, and I will bear it. 20 My tent was laid waste, and all my cords were broken: my sons went forth from me, and they are not: none stretched forth my tent any more, and the place of my curtains. 21 For the shepherds were brutish, and they sought not Jehovah: for this they considered not, and all their flock was scattered. 22 Behold, a voice of tidings coming, and a great shaking from the land of the north, to set the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling of jackals.
23 I knew, O Jehovah, that not to man his way; not to man to go and set right his step. 24 Correct me, O Jehovah, but in judgment, not in thy wrath, lest thou shalt make me small. 25 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations which knew thee not, and upon the families that called not upon thy name: for they ate up Jacob and consumed him, and they will finish him, and they made desolate his dwelling.