17Gather up from the earth, you who are humbled; you sit in siege.18For thus says the LORD: Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will distress them so that they may find.19Woe to me for my breakage! My inheritance is struck, and I said, "Truly this is a sickness, and I will lift it up."20My tent is plundered, and all my cords are torn. My sons have gone out from me, and they are no more. There is no one to stretch out my tent again or to raise my tent cloths.21For the shepherds have become brutish, and they have not inquired of the LORD; therefore they have not acted wisely, and all their flock has been scattered.22Behold, a sound of report is coming, and a great commotion from the land of the north, to put the cities of Judah to desolation, a haunt of jackals.