22. Listen! Hear the terrifying roar of great armiesas they roll down from the north.The towns of Judah will be destroyedand become a haunt for jackals.
23. I know, lord, that our lives are not our own.We are not able to plan our own course.
24. So correct me, lord, but please be gentle.Do not correct me in anger, for I would die.
25. Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you—on the peoples that do not call upon your name.For they have devoured your people Israel;they have devoured and consumed them,making the land a desolate wilderness.