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18 “Your lifestyles and your actions
    have brought these things on you.
This is your calamity—it is indeed bitter,
    for it has reached your heart!”

Jeremiah’s Lament for His People

19 “My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain.
    Oh, the aching[a] of my heart!
My heart pounds within me;
    I cannot keep silent.
For I hear the sound of the trumpet,[b]
    the alarm for war.
20 Disaster upon disaster is proclaimed,
    for the entire land is devastated.
Suddenly, my tent is destroyed,
    in a moment my curtains.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit. walls
  2. Jeremiah 4:19 I.e. the signal for the troops to attack