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18 Say to the king and the queen mother:
    “Take a lowly seat,
for your beautiful crown
    has come down from your head.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.18 Gk Syr Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain

26 I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.(A)

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12 King Jehoiachin of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon: himself, his mother, his servants, his officers, and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign.(A)

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15 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the elite of the land, he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.(A)

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19 His prayer, and how God received his entreaty, all his sin and his faithlessness, the sites on which he built high places and set up the sacred poles[a] and the images, before he humbled himself, these are written in the records of the seers.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 33.19 Or Asherahs
  2. 33.19 Heb ms Gk: MT of Hozai

The Humiliation of Babylon

47 Come down and sit in the dust,
    virgin daughter Babylon!
Sit on the ground without a throne,
    daughter Chaldea!
For you shall no more be called
    tender and delicate.(A)

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12 While he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.(A)

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Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time.

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10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.(A)

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Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

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When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.(A)

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26 And her gates shall lament and mourn;
    desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.(A)

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23 He did not humble himself before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred more and more guilt.(A)

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So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may serve me.(A)

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and say:

What a lioness was your mother
    among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
    rearing her cubs.(A)
She raised up one of her cubs;
    he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured humans.(B)
The nations heard about him;
    he was caught in their pit,
and they brought him with hooks
    to the land of Egypt.(C)
When she saw that she was thwarted,
    that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
    and made him a young lion.(D)
He prowled among the lions;
    he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured people.(E)
And he ravaged their strongholds[a]
    and laid waste their towns;
the land was appalled, and all in it,
    at the sound of his roaring.(F)
The nations set upon him
    from the provinces all around;
they spread their net over him;
    he was caught in their pit.(G)
With hooks they put him in a neck collar
    and brought him to the king of Babylon;
    they brought him into custody,
so that his voice should be heard no more
    on the mountains of Israel.(H)
10 Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard[b]
    transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
    from abundant water.(I)
11 Its strongest stem became
    a ruler’s scepter;[c]
it towered aloft
    among the clouds;
it stood out in its height
    with its mass of branches.(J)
12 But it was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
    its fruit was stripped off;
its strong stem was withered;
    the fire consumed it.(K)
13 Now it is transplanted into the wilderness,
    into a dry and thirsty land.(L)
14 And fire has gone out from its stem,
    has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
    no scepter for ruling.

This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.(M)

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Footnotes

  1. 19.7 Tg: Heb his widows
  2. 19.10 Cn: Heb in your blood
  3. 19.11 Heb Its strongest stems became rulers’ scepters

10 The elders of daughter Zion
    sit on the ground in silence;
they have thrown dust on their heads;
    they put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.(A)

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