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21 When you felt secure, I warned you.
    But you said, ‘I won’t listen!’
You have acted like that ever since you were young.
    You have not obeyed me.
22 The wind will drive away all your shepherds.
    All those who were going to help you will be carried off as prisoners.
Then you will be dishonored and put to shame.
    That will happen because you have been so sinful.
23 Some of you live in Jerusalem in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
    You are comfortable in your cedar buildings.
But you will groan when pain comes on you.
    It will be like the pain of a woman having a baby.

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21 I warned you when you felt secure,(A)
    but you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your way from your youth;(B)
    you have not obeyed(C) me.
22 The wind(D) will drive all your shepherds(E) away,
    and your allies(F) will go into exile.
Then you will be ashamed and disgraced(G)
    because of all your wickedness.
23 You who live in ‘Lebanon,[a](H)
    who are nestled in cedar buildings,
how you will groan when pangs come upon you,
    pain(I) like that of a woman in labor!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:23 That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)