Jeremiah’s complaint and Yahweh’s reply

10 I said to my mother, “I am very sad;

I wish that you had not given birth to me;

everyone in this land opposes me and quarrels with me.

I am not a person who lends money to people and threatens to sue/harm them if they do not pay me back when they should,

and I am not a person who borrows money from others and then refuses to pay it back,

but everyone [HYP] curses me.”

11 But Yahweh replied to me,

“Jeremiah, I will take care of you.

And at times when your enemies have troubles and disasters,

they will come to you and plead for you to help them.”

12 Yahweh also told me to say to the people of Judah,

“Your enemies, who are as strong as iron or bronze, will attack you from the north;

no one will be able to stop them.

13 I will give all the valuable possessions of the people of Judah to their enemies,

without them paying for it.

Their valuable possessions will be the payment/reward that I will give them

because of all the sins that you have committed throughout your country.

14 I will tell your enemies to force you to become their prisoners,

and to take you to other lands that you do not even know about,

and force you to become their slaves.

That will happen because I am extremely angry with you;

my being angry is like [SIM] a fire that will burn forever.”