18. This is what the Lord says:“At this time I will throw out the people of Judah who live in this land.I will bring pain and trouble to them.And they will really feel it.”
19. How terrible it will be for me because of my injury.I am injured and cannot be healed.Yet I told myself,“This is my sickness; I must suffer through it.”
20. My tent is ruined.All its ropes are broken.My children have gone away and left me.No one is left to put up my tent.No one is left to set up a shelter for me.
21. The shepherds are stupid.They don’t ask the Lord.So they do not have success.Their flocks are scattered and lost.
22. Listen! The news is coming.The loud noise is coming from the north.It will make the towns of Judah an empty desert.They will become a home for wild dogs!
23. Lord, I know that a person’s life doesn’t really belong to him.No one can control his own life.
24. Lord, correct me, but be fair.Don’t punish me in anger.If you do, you will destroy me.
25. Pour out your anger on other nations.They do not know you.They do not pray to you.Those nations have destroyed Jacob’s family.They have eaten him up.They destroyed his homeland.