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A Message for the King and the Queen Mother

18 “Say to the king and to the queen mother, ‘Take a lower seat,[a]
    for your beautiful crown[b] has come down from your head.’[c]
19 The towns of the Negev are shut up,
    and there is no one who opens them.[d]
All of Judah is deported;
    it is deported in completeness.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:18 Literally “Bring low sit”
  2. Jeremiah 13:18 Literally “the crown of your beauty”
  3. Jeremiah 13:18 Or “at the head of you”
  4. Jeremiah 13:19 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

18 Tell the king and the queen mother:
    Come down from your lofty place,
        because your glorious crowns
            will soon be removed from your heads.
19 The towns of the arid southern plain will be surrounded;
    no one will get in or out;
        all Judah will be taken into exile;
            everyone will be led away.

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18 Say to the king(A) and to the queen mother,(B)
    “Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns(C)
    will fall from your heads.”
19 The cities in the Negev will be shut up,
    and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah(D) will be carried into exile,
    carried completely away.

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