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17 But if you will not listen to it,
    my inner self[a] will weep in secret places,
    because of the presence of[b] your pride.
And my eyes[c] will weep bitterly,
    and they will melt in tears,
    because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.

A Message for the King and the Queen Mother

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

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:17 Or “soul”
  2. Jeremiah 13:17 Literally “the face of”
  3. Jeremiah 13:17 Hebrew “eye”
  4. Jeremiah 13:18 Literally “Bring low sit”
  5. Jeremiah 13:18 Literally “the crown of your beauty”
  6. Jeremiah 13:18 Or “at the head of you”
  7. Jeremiah 13:19 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation