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17 If you don’t listen to him,
    I will cry secretly
    because of your pride.
I will cry painfully,
    and my eyes will ·overflow [run down] with tears,
because the ·Lord’s people [L the flock of the Lord] will be ·captured [exiled].

18 Tell this to the king and the queen mother [L perhaps Jehoiachin and his mother Nehushta who went into exile in 597 bc (22:26; 29:2; 2 Kin. 24:8–17)]
    “Come down from your thrones,
because your ·beautiful [splendid; glorious] crowns
    ·have fallen [or will fall] from your heads.”
19 The cities of ·southern Judah [L the Negev] are ·locked [shut] up,
    and no one can open them.
All Judah will be ·taken as captives to a foreign land [exiled; C to Babylon];
    they will ·be carried away [exiled] completely [C the exile in 597 bc was a precursor to the more complete one in 586 bc].

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17 If you do not listen,(A)
    I will weep in secret
    because of your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly,
    overflowing with tears,(B)
    because the Lord’s flock(C) will be taken captive.(D)

18 Say to the king(E) and to the queen mother,(F)
    “Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns(G)
    will fall from your heads.”
19 The cities in the Negev will be shut up,
    and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah(H) will be carried into exile,
    carried completely away.

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