21 I spake unto thee when thou wast in prosperity: but thou saidest, I will not hear, this hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou wouldest not obey my voice.

22 The wind shall feed all thy pastors, [a]and thy lovers shall go into captivity: and then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded of all thy wickedness.

23 Thou that dwellest in Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the [b]cedars, how beautiful shalt thou be when sorrows come upon thee, as the sorrow of a woman in travail?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:22 Both thy governors and they that should help thee, shall vanish away as wind.
  2. Jeremiah 22:23 Thou that art built of the fair Cedar trees of Lebanon.

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