Jeremiah 12:9-13 Good News Bible (GNB)

9. My chosen people are like a birdattacked from all sides by hawks.Call the wild animalsto come and join in the feast!

10. Many foreign rulers have destroyed my vineyard;they have trampled down my fields;they have turned my lovely land into a desert.

11. They have made it a wilderness;it lies desolate before me.The whole land has become a desert,and no one cares.

12. Across all the desert highlandspeople have come to plunder.I have sent war to destroy the entire land;no one can live in peace.

13. My people sowed wheat, but gathered weeds;they have worked hard, but got nothing for it.Because of my fierce angertheir crops have failed.”

Jeremiah 12