Jeremiah 13:15-21

15Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken.

16Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but he brings darkest gloom and makes total darkness.

17But if you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

18Say to the king and the queen mother: Take a humble seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.

19The cities of the Negev are under siege; no one can help them. All of Judah has been taken into exile, taken completely into exile.

20Look up and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?

21What will you say when he appoints close friends as leaders over you, ones you yourself trained? Won’t labor pains seize you, as they do a woman in labor?