10:19 And I cried out, 1 “We are doomed! 2
Our wound is severe!
We once thought, ‘This is only an illness.
And we will be able to bear it!’ 3
10:20 But our tents have been destroyed.
The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. 4
Our children are gone and are not coming back. 5
There is no survivor to put our tents back up,
no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.
10:21 For our leaders 6 are stupid.
They have not sought the Lord’s advice. 7
So they do not act wisely,
and the people they are responsible for 8 have all been scattered.
10:22 Listen! News is coming even now. 9
The rumble of a great army is heard approaching 10 from a land in the north. 11
It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,
places where only jackals live.