Jeremiah 13:18-20

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¹⁸Tell these things to the king and his wife,
    “Come down from your thrones.
    Your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads.”
¹⁹The 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.

²⁰Jerusalem, look!
The enemy is coming from the north^[a]!
Where is the flock^[b] you were once in charge of?
That beautiful flock is gone now.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 13:20 north The Babylonian army came from this direction to attack Judah. Armies from countries north and east of Israel often came this way to attack Judah and Israel.
Jeremiah 13:20 flock Here, the word “flock” refers to all the towns around Jerusalem, as if Jerusalem were the shepherd and the towns of Judah were her flock.