Jeremiah 4:18-20

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁸“The way you lived and the things you did
brought this trouble to you.
It is your evil that made your life so hard.
Your evil life brought the pain that hurts deep in your heart.”

Jeremiah’s Cry

¹⁹My sadness and worry is making my stomach hurt.
    I am bent over in pain.
I am so afraid.
    My heart is pounding inside me.
I cannot keep quiet, because I have heard the trumpet blow.
    The trumpet is calling the army to war.
²⁰Disaster follows disaster.
    The whole country is destroyed.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed.
    My curtains are torn down!