¹⁷ But if you will not hear it,
    my soul will weep in secret for your pride.
My eye will weep bitterly,
    and run down with tears,
    because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
¹⁸ Say to the king and to the queen mother,
    “Humble yourselves.
Sit down, for your crowns have come down,
    even the crown of your glory.
¹⁹ The cities of the South are shut up,
    and there is no one to open them.
Judah is carried away captive: all of them.
    They are wholly carried away captive.