Jeremiah 13:17-19

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁷ If you people of Judah don’t listen to him,
    I will hide and cry.
Your pride will cause me to cry.
    I will cry very hard.
My eyes will overflow with tears,
    because the Lord’s flock^[a] will be captured.
¹⁸ Tell these things to the king and his wife,
    “Come down from your thrones.
    Your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads.”
¹⁹ The cities in the Negev are locked.
    No one can open them.
All the people of Judah have been taken away as captives.
    They were carried away as prisoners.