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21 The shepherds of my people have lost their senses;
    they never thought to ask what the Eternal would have them do.
So now they are in trouble,
    and all their flocks are scattered.
22 Listen! The news we’ve dreaded is finally here:
    Rumblings are being heard in the north; an army is moving into our land.
The villages of Judah will be laid to waste;
    their rubble will be the haunt of jackals.

23 Jeremiah: O Eternal One, I know our lives are in Your hands.
        It is not in us to direct our own steps—we need You.

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