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Jeremiah 10:22
“The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 10
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My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
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The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.
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Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
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Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
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Warnings of Jerusalem’s fall and promises of a new covenant.
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