Jeremiah 10:17-25
The Coming Captivity of Judah
17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
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18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so].
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19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.
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20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
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22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons.
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23 O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
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24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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