19. 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!’
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.