21 For the Pastors [a]are become beasts, and have not sought the Lord: therefore have they none understanding: and all the flocks of their pastures are scattered.

22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the [b]North country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

23 O Lord, I know that [c]the way of man is not in himself, neither is it in man to walk and to direct his steps.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:21 The governors and ministers.
  2. Jeremiah 10:22 Read Jer. 4:15.
  3. Jeremiah 10:23 He speaketh this because that Nebuchadnezzar purposed to have made war against the Moabites and Ammonites, but hearing of Zedekiah’s rebellion, he turned his power to go against Jerusalem, Ezek. 21:21, therefore the Prophet saith, that this was the Lord’s direction.

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