20 Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride? 21 What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor? 22 And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
Jeremiah 13:20–22
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