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¹⁷Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who live under siege! ¹⁸For thus says the Lord: I am going to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, so that they shall feel it. ¹⁹Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is severe. But I said, “Truly this is my punishment, and I must bear it.” ²⁰My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are no more; 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. ²²Hear, a noise! Listen, it is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals. ²³I know, O Lord, that the way of human beings is not in their control, that mortals as they walk cannot direct their steps. ²⁴Correct me, O Lord, but in just measure; not in your anger, or you will bring me to nothing. ²⁵Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the peoples that do not call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.