Jeremiah 10:17-25

Coming Destruction

17 Gather up your belongings to leave the land, you who live under siege.
18 For this is what the LORD says: “At this time I will hurl out those who live in this land; I will bring distress on them so that they may be captured.”
19 Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, “This is my sickness, and I must endure it.”
20 My tent is destroyed; all its ropes are snapped. My children are gone from me and are no more; no one is left now to pitch my tent or to set up my shelter.
21 The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the LORD; so they do not prosper and all their flock is scattered.
22 Listen! The report is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north! It will make the towns of Judah desolate, a haunt of jackals.

Jeremiah’s Prayer

23 LORD, I know that people’s lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps.
24 Discipline me, LORD, but only in due measure— not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland.

Cross References 23

  • 1. Ezekiel 12:3-12
  • 2. S 1 Samuel 25:29; S Isaiah 22:17
  • 3. S Deuteronomy 28:52
  • 4. Job 34:6; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 30:12,15; Lamentations 2:13; Micah 1:9; Nahum 3:19
  • 5. Micah 7:9
  • 6. S Jeremiah 4:20
  • 7. Jeremiah 31:15; Lamentations 1:5
  • 8. Jeremiah 22:22; Jeremiah 23:1; Jeremiah 25:34; Jeremiah 50:6
  • 9. ver 8
  • 10. S Isaiah 56:10
  • 11. Jeremiah 22:30
  • 12. Jeremiah 23:2; Ezekiel 34:6
  • 13. Jeremiah 6:22; Jeremiah 27:6; Jeremiah 49:28,30
  • 14. Ezekiel 12:19
  • 15. S Isaiah 34:13; Jeremiah 9:11
  • 16. S Job 33:29; S Proverbs 3:5-6; Proverbs 20:24
  • 17. Psalms 6:1; Psalms 38:1; S Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 18:23
  • 18. Jeremiah 46:28
  • 19. Jeremiah 30:11
  • 20. S Psalms 69:24; Zephaniah 2:2; Zephaniah 3:8
  • 21. Job 18:21; S Psalms 14:4
  • 22. S Psalms 79:7; S Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 8:16
  • 23. Psalms 79:6-7
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