10:21 For our leaders 1 are stupid.
They have not sought the Lord’s advice. 2
So they do not act wisely,
and the people they are responsible for 3 have all been scattered.
10:22 Listen! News is coming even now. 4
The rumble of a great army is heard approaching 5 from a land in the north. 6
It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,
places where only jackals live.
1 tn Heb “the shepherds.”
2 tn Heb “They have not sought the
3 tn Heb “all their flock (or “pasturage”).”
4 tn Heb “The sound of a report, behold, it is coming.”
5 tn Heb “ coming, even a great quaking.”
6 sn Compare Jer 6:22.