Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken. 16Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness. 17But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive. 18Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head. 19The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity. 20Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle? 21What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour? 22And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled. 23If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil. 24And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert. 25This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood. 26Wherefore I have also bared thy thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared. 27I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?