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"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!’"
— Jeremiah 10:19, NET Bible
“Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.”
“Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it. ”
“Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.”
“Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous. But I said: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it.”
“Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.”
“Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.”
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.
For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the LORD’s advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been scattered.
Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.