19. Woe to me for my breaking! My wound is grievous, but I say, “This is my sickness, and I bear it.
20. “My tent has been ravaged, and all my cords have been broken. My children have gone from me, and they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent any more, or to set up my curtains.
21. For the shepherds have become brutish, and they have not sought יהוה. Therefore they did not understand, and all their flock scattered.”
22. See, it has come, the voice of a report, and a great shaking out of the land of the north, to make the cities of Yehuḏah a waste, a habitation of jackals.
23. O יהוה, I know the way of man is not in himself, it is not for man who walks to direct his own steps.
24. O יהוה, chastise me, but with right-ruling – not in Your displeasure, lest You bring me to naught.
25. Pour out Your wrath on the gentiles who do not know You, and on the tribes who do not call on Your Name. For they have eaten up Ya‛aqoḇ, devoured him and consumed him, and laid waste his home.