16. Give glory to the Lord your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.
17. But if ye will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret because of your pride; and weeping bitterly, my eyes shall be undone in tears because the Lord’s flock was carried away captive.
18. Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down in the dust because the crown of your glory has come down off your heads.
19. The cities of the south were shut up, and no one could open them: Judah was carried away captive; all of it, it was completely carried away captive.
20. Lift up your eyes, and behold those that come from the north wind: where is the flock that was given thee, the cattle of thy beauty?
21. What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? For thou hast taught them to be princes and as head over thee; shall not sorrows take thee as a woman in travail?
22. When thou shalt say in thine heart, Why do these things come upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered and thy heels made bare.
23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Likewise ye also cannot do good, being taught to do evil.
24. Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
25. This shall be thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me said the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
26. Therefore I uncovered thy skirts before thy face, and thy shame was manifested.