17. If you don’t listen to the Lord,I will cry secretly.Your pride will cause me to cry.I will cry painfully.My eyes will overflow with tears.This is because the Lord’s people will be captured.
18. Tell this to the king and queen mother:“Come down from your thrones.Your beautiful crownshave fallen from your heads.”
19. The cities in the desert of southern Judah are shut up.No one can open them.All Judah will be taken as captives to a foreign land.They will be carried away completely.