Jeremiah 13:18-27

18Say to the king and the queen mother: “Sit down low, for your glorious crown has fallen from your head.”

19The towns of the South will be shut up, with no one to open them. All Judah is taken into exile— utterly swept into exile.

20Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock given to you, Your beautiful sheep?

21What will you say, when He sets up the allies you cultivated for yourself, over you as head? Will not labor pains seize you, like a woman in travail?

22Suppose you say in your heart, “Why did these things happen to me?” Because of your great iniquity, your skirts are uncovered and your heels suffer violence.

23Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Or the leopard his spots? So, could you do good, that are accustomed to doing evil?

24“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw in the desert wind.

25This is your lot, the portion measured for you from Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “For you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

26Therefore I will also uncover your skirts over your face, expose your shame.

27Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution— on the hills in the field I have seen your loathsome acts. Oy you, Jerusalem! You are unclean! How much longer?”