Jeremiah 13:19-22
The Message
18-19 Tell the king and the queen-mother,
“Come down off your high horses.
Your dazzling crowns
will tumble off your heads.”
The villages in the Negev will be surrounded,
everyone trapped,
And Judah dragged off to exile,
the whole country dragged to oblivion.
* * *
20-22 Look, look, Jerusalem!
Look at the enemies coming out of the north!
What will become of your flocks of people,
the beautiful flocks in your care?
How are you going to feel when the people
you’ve played up to, looked up to all these years
Now look down on you? You didn’t expect this?
Surprise! The pain of a woman having a baby!
Do I hear you saying,
“What’s going on here? Why me?”
The answer’s simple: You’re guilty,
hugely guilty.
Your guilt has your life endangered,
your guilt has you writhing in pain.
Jeremiah 13:19-22
New International Version
19 The cities in the Negev will be shut up,
and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah(A) will be carried into exile,
carried completely away.
20 Look up and see
those who are coming from the north.(B)
Where is the flock(C) that was entrusted to you,
the sheep of which you boasted?
21 What will you say when the Lord sets over you
those you cultivated as your special allies?(D)
Will not pain grip you
like that of a woman in labor?(E)
22 And if you ask yourself,
“Why has this happened to me?”(F)—
it is because of your many sins(G)
that your skirts have been torn off(H)
and your body mistreated.(I)
Jeremiah 13:19-22
The Message
18-19 Tell the king and the queen-mother,
“Come down off your high horses.
Your dazzling crowns
will tumble off your heads.”
The villages in the Negev will be surrounded,
everyone trapped,
And Judah dragged off to exile,
the whole country dragged to oblivion.
* * *
20-22 Look, look, Jerusalem!
Look at the enemies coming out of the north!
What will become of your flocks of people,
the beautiful flocks in your care?
How are you going to feel when the people
you’ve played up to, looked up to all these years
Now look down on you? You didn’t expect this?
Surprise! The pain of a woman having a baby!
Do I hear you saying,
“What’s going on here? Why me?”
The answer’s simple: You’re guilty,
hugely guilty.
Your guilt has your life endangered,
your guilt has you writhing in pain.
Jeremiah 13:19-21
New International Version
19 The cities in the Negev will be shut up,
and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah(A) will be carried into exile,
carried completely away.
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