25 And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,[a](A) the day has come(B) for your punishment.[b]

26 “This is what the Lord God says:

Remove the turban, and take off the crown.
Things will not remain as they are;[c]
exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.(C)
27 A ruin, a ruin,
I will make it a ruin!
Yet this will not happen
until he comes;(D)
I have given the judgment to him.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 21:25 = King Zedekiah
  2. 21:25 Lit come in the time of the punishment of the end, also in v. 29
  3. 21:26 Lit This not this
  4. 21:27 Or comes to whom it rightfully belongs, and I will give it to him

25 As for you, vile, wicked prince of Israel,
    you whose day has come,
    the time of final punishment,(A)
26 thus says the Lord God:
Remove the turban, take off the crown;
    things shall not remain as they are.
Exalt that which is low;
    humble that which is high.(B)
27 A ruin, a ruin, a ruin—
    I will make it!
    (Such has never occurred.)
Until he comes whose right it is;
    to him I will give it.(C)

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