17Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege!

18For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it."

19Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it."

20My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again and to set up my curtains.

21For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the LORD; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

22A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!-- a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

23I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

24Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

25Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.