Jeremiah 4:18-20
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
18 Your conduct, your deeds, have done this to you;
how bitter is this evil of yours,
how it reaches to your very heart!(A)
19 My body! my body! how I writhe![a]
The walls of my heart!
My heart beats wildly,
I cannot be still;
For I myself have heard the blast of the horn,
the battle cry.
20 Ruin upon ruin is reported;
the whole land is laid waste.
In an instant my tents are ravaged;
in a flash, my shelters.(B)
Footnotes
- 4:19–21 Probably the prophet’s own anguish at the coming destruction of Judah.
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