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Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down. For the crown of your glory will come down from your head places.

What will you say when He visits you? For you taught them to be rulers over you for a head. Will not birth pangs seize you like a woman bearing?

Judah mourns, and her gates droop. They put on mourning for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Because the ground was cracked, for there was no rain in the land; the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their head.

For even the doe calved in the field and forsook it because there was no grass.

O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our apostasies are many; we have sinned against You.

Then Jehovah said to me, Do not pray for good for this people.

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. And none will bury them, either them, their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. For I will pour evil on them.

And you shall speak this Word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, with a very grievous blow.

Have You completely rejected Judah? Or has Your soul hated Zion? Why have You stricken us and no healing is for us? We looked for peace, but no good came ; and for a healing time, but, behold, terror!

We acknowledge our wickedness, O Jehovah, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

For Your name's sake, do not spurn us ; do not dishonor the throne of Your glory. Remember, and do not break Your covenant with us.

Among the vanities of the nations are there any who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait for You; for You do all these things.

And it will be, if they say to you, Where shall we go? Then you will tell them, So says Jehovah, Those who are for death, go to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for thefamine, to the famine; and those for thecaptivity, to the captivity.

And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah; for what he did in Jerusalem.

For who shall have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who shall weep over you? Or who shall turn aside to ask your welfare?

And I will sift them with a fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave; I will destroy My people, for they do not turn from their ways.

Their widows are more numerous about Me than the sand of the seas. I have brought for them a ravager at noonday against the mother of a young man; I caused anguish and terror to fall on her suddenly.

Jehovah said, Truly, I will not free you for good. Truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you in the time of evil and in the time of distress.

Your wealth and your treasures I will give for prey, not for price, but for all your sins, even in all your borders.