19. The towns of the Negev are shut up, and there is no one who opens them. All of Judah is deported; it is deported in completeness.
20. Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your magnificent flock?
21. What will you say when he sets over you— and you have taught them—allies as head over you? Will not labor pains take hold of you, like a woman giving birth?
22. And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?’ Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered; your heels have endured violence.
23. Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you also will be able to do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.
24. And I will scatter them like stubble scattered by the wind of the desert.