10:17 Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land,
you people of Jerusalem 1 who are being besieged. 2
10:18 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.” 3
10:19 And I cried out, 4 “We are doomed! 5
Our wound is severe!
We once thought, ‘This is only an illness.
And we will be able to bear it!’ 6
10:20 But our tents have been destroyed.
The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. 7
Our children are gone and are not coming back. 8
There is no survivor to put our tents back up,
no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.
10:21 For our leaders 9 are stupid.
They have not sought the Lord’s advice. 10
So they do not act wisely,
and the people they are responsible for 11 have all been scattered.
10:22 Listen! News is coming even now. 12
The rumble of a great army is heard approaching 13 from a land in the north. 14
It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,
places where only jackals live.