18. Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence.
19. The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them; all Judah is carried away captive: it is wholly carried away captive.
20. Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21. What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee, since thou thyself hast trained them to be princes in chief over thee? Shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
22. And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels have suffered violence.
23. Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
24. And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
25. This shall be thy lot, thy measured portion from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and confided in falsehood.
26. Therefore will I also turn thy skirts over thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.
27. Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy fornication, on the hills, in the fields, --thine abominations, have I seen. Woe unto thee, Jerusalem! Wilt thou not be made clean? after how long a time yet?