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18 This is what the Lord says:
“This time, I will throw the people of Judah out of this country.
    I will bring pain and trouble to them.
    I will do this so that they will learn their lesson.”[a]

19 I am hurt badly.
    I am injured and I cannot be healed.
But I told myself, “This is my sickness;
    I must suffer through it.”
20 My tent is ruined.
    All its ropes are broken.
My children left me.
    They are gone.
No one is left to put up my tent.
    No one is left to fix a shelter for me.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:18 they will learn their lesson The Hebrew text here is hard to understand.

18 For this is what the Lord says:
    “At this time I will hurl(A) out
    those who live in this land;
I will bring distress(B) on them
    so that they may be captured.”

19 Woe to me because of my injury!
    My wound(C) is incurable!
Yet I said to myself,
    “This is my sickness, and I must endure(D) it.”
20 My tent(E) is destroyed;
    all its ropes are snapped.
My children are gone from me and are no more;(F)
    no one is left now to pitch my tent
    or to set up my shelter.

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