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Jeremiah 8:21

New American Bible - revised edition

I am broken by the injury of the daughter of my people. I am in mourning; horror has seized me.

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Speak to them this word: Let my eyes stream with tears night and day, without rest, Over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound.

“Plunder the silver, plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, to wealth in every precious thing!

Before them peoples tremble, every face turns pale.

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a travelers’ lodging! That I might leave my people and depart from them. They are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

My body! my body! how I writhe! 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.

As he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

Yet I did not press you to send disaster; the day without remedy I have not desired. You know what passed my lips; it is present before you.

I answered the king: “May the king live forever! How could I not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates consumed by fire?”

“The harvest is over, the summer ended, but we have not yet been saved!”

Judah mourns, her gates are lifeless; They are bowed to the ground, and the outcry of Jerusalem goes up.

I am one who has known affliction under the rod of God’s anger,




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