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Jeremiah 13:19

Verse 19 of 27. The 13th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

15Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for the LORD has spoken.

16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

17But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

18Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.

19The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of them. They are wholly carried away captive.

20Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?

21What will you say when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?

22If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.

23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.