17. And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.
18. Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low--sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.
19. The cities of the south have been shut up, And there is none opening, Judah hath been removed--all of her, She hath been removed completely--
20. Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where [is] the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?
21. What dost thou say, when He looketh after thee? And thou--thou hast taught them [to be] over thee--leaders for head? Do not pangs seize thee as a travailing woman?
22. And when thou dost say in thy heart, `Wherefore have these met me?' For the abundance of thine iniquity Have thy skirts been uncovered, Have thy heels suffered violence.
23. Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
24. And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.
25. This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me--an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.
26. I also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.
27. Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, The wickedness of thy whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, Thou art not cleansed, after when [is it] again?