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17 If you refuse to listen to God's message,
    I will hide myself and I will weep.
Because you are so proud,
    tears will pour from my eyes.
I will cry because the Lord has sent his own people away
    as prisoners to a foreign land.

18 Tell the king and his mother,
    “Come down from your thrones.
Your beautiful crowns will soon fall from your heads.”[a]
19 The cities in the south of Judah will keep their gates shut.
    Nobody will go in or out of the cities.
Enemies will take the people of Judah away as prisoners.
    They will take them all into exile.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:18 This means that they will not continue to rule the people.