Jeremiah 10:23-25;11:4-5

23I know, O Lord, that a man’s life is not his own;

it is not for man to direct his steps.

24Correct me, Lord, but only with justice—

not in your anger,

lest you reduce me to nothing.

25Pour out your wrath on the nations

that do not acknowledge you,

on the peoples who do not call on your name.

For they have devoured Jacob;

they have devoured him completely

and destroyed his homeland.

4the terms I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. 5Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.”

I answered, “Amen, Lord.”