Jeremiah 13:16-18

Contemporary English Version

¹⁶You hope for light,
    but God is sending darkness.
Evening shadows already deepen
    in the hills.
So return to God
and confess your sins to him
    before you trip and fall.
¹⁷If you are too proud to listen,
    I will weep alone.
Tears will stream from my eyes
when the Lord's people
    are taken away as prisoners.

¹⁸The Lord told me to tell you
that your king and his mother^[a]
must surrender their thrones
and remove their crowns.^[b]

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Footnotes

13.18 mother: The king's mother usually had an important position in the royal court.
13.18 and remove their crowns: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.