Jeremiah 10:17-25
God will soon punish the people of Judah
and they are ready to attack you.
So get all your things together.
Prepare to leave your country.
‘I will now throw out the people who live in this land.
I will bring much trouble to them,
and they will be in pain.’
We have received a very bad
We thought, “We are very ill,
but one day we will get better.”
They have broken the
Our children have gone,
and none of them remain.
There is nobody still alive
who can help us build our homes again.
They do not ask the Lord for his
So they have failed to take care of us,
and all their people have
There is the noise of a great army in the north.
It is marching towards us!
It is coming to attack the towns of Judah.
It will make them
Only wild animals will live in them.
Nobody can decide what will happen to them.
but do it carefully.
Please do not
That would be the end of us.
Be angry with the people who do not
Those are the people who have destroyed Jacob's
They have killed our people.
They have destroyed our land and our homes.’