Jeremiah 13:20-22

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁰ Look up and see
those coming from the north.^(A)
Where is the flock entrusted to you,
the sheep that were your pride?

²¹ What will you say when He appoints
close friends as leaders over you,
ones you yourself trained?
Won’t labor pains seize you,^(B)
as they do a woman in labor?
²² And when you ask yourself,
“Why have these things happened to me?”
It is because of your great guilt^(C)
that your skirts have been stripped off,^(D)
your body exposed.^[a]