Warning to the King and Queen

Jeremiah 13:18-21

Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”

The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?

What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?