Warning to the King and Queen

Jeremiah 13:18-21

Tell the king and the queen mother, "Come down from your thrones, for your magnificent crowns are falling from your heads."

The cities of the Negev are besieged, and no one can relieve them; all of Y'hudah is carried into exile, completely swept into exile.

Raise your eyes, and you will see them coming from the north. Where is the flock once entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?

When he sets over you as rulers those you trained to be allies, what will you say? Won't pains seize you like those of a woman in labor?