15Hear and listen; do not exult, for the LORD has spoken.16Give glory to the LORD your God before he darkens the light and before your feet strike upon the mountains at twilight; await the light, yet he will turn it into deep shadow and into thick cloud.17If you will not hear it, then in secret my soul weeps because of pride, and it weeps bitterly, and my eyes flow with tears, because the flock of the LORD has been taken captive.18Say to the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves and sit down, for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.19The cities of the Negeb are shut up, and no one opens them; Judah has been carried into exile, all of it, into a place of peace.20Lift up your eyes and look; see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, the flock of your beauty?21What will you say when he visits punishment upon you, since you have taught allies to be your head? Will not pangs seize you like those of a woman in labor?22And if you say in your heart, Why have these things happened to me? It is because of the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts have been uncovered and your heels have been injured.23Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you also can do good, you who are accustomed to doing evil.24So I will scatter them like stubble driven by the wind of the wilderness.25This is your portion allotted to you from me, declares the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in falsehood.26Therefore I myself have lifted your skirts over your face, so that your shame may be seen.27I have seen your adulteries and your neighings, your lewd whorings upon the hills in the countryside; your abominations are before me. Woe to you, Jerusalem! Will you never be clean?