Jeremiah 10:20
Verse 20 of 25. The 10th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.
16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Armies is his name.
17Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.
18For the LORD says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.”
19Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”
20My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains.
21For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered.
22The 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.
23LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
24LORD, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.