Jeremiah 13:18-27

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?

22And when you ask yourself, “Why have these things happened to me?” it is because of your great guilt that your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed.

23Can the Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil.

24I will scatter you like drifting chaff before the desert wind.

25This is your lot, what I have decreed for you — this is the Lord’s declaration — because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

26I will pull your skirts up over your face so that your shame might be seen.

27Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields — I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean — for how long yet?