NET Bible
"Jeremiah Laments for and Prays for the Soon-to-be-Judged People Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged."
— Jeremiah 10:17, NET Bible
“Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.”
“Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege. ”
“Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.”
“Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in a siege.”
“Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.”
“Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.”
All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
Jeremiah Laments for and Prays for the Soon-to-be-Judged People Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged.
For the LORD says,“I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it.”
And I cried out,“We are doomed! Our wound is severe! We once thought,‘This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it!’
But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.