19. I am hurt badly. I am injured and I cannot be healed. But I told myself, “This is my sickness; I must suffer through it.”
20. My tent is ruined. All its ropes are broken. My children left me. They are gone. No one is left to put up my tent. No one is left to fix a shelter for me.
21. The shepherds are stupid. They don’t try to find the Lord. They are not wise, so their flocks are scattered and lost.
22. Listen! A loud noise! The noise is coming from the north. It will destroy the cities of Judah. Judah will become an empty desert. It will be a home for jackals.
23. Lord, I know that our lives do not belong to us. We have no control over what happens.
24. So correct us, Lord! But please be fair. Don’t punish us in anger, or you will destroy us!