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But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive (13:17) Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory (13:18) The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive (13:19) Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where [is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy beautiful flock? (13:20) What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? (13:21) And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, [and] thy heels made bare (13:22) Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil (13:23) Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness (13:24) This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood (13:25) Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear (13:26) I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?
(13:27)
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