17. Get everything you own and prepare to leave,you people who are trapped by your enemies.
18. This is what the Lord says:“At this time I will throw out the people who live in this land.I will bring trouble to themso that they may be captured.”
19. How terrible it will be for me because of my injury.My wound cannot be healed.Yet I told myself,“This is my sickness; I must suffer through it.”
20. My tent is ruined,and all its ropes are broken.My children have gone away and left me.No one is left to put up my tent againor to set up a shelter for me.
21. The shepherds are stupidand don’t ask the Lord for advice.So they do not have success,and all their flocks are scattered and lost.
22. Listen! The news is coming.A loud noise comes from the northto make the towns of Judah an empty desertand a home for wild dogs!
23. Lord, I know that our lives don’t really belong to us.We can’t control our own lives.
24. Lord, correct me, but be fair.Don’t punish me in your anger,or you will destroy me.
25. Pour out your anger on other nationsthat do not know youand do not pray to you.Those nations have destroyed the people of Jacob.They have eaten them up completelyand destroyed their homeland.