19. The cities of the south have been shut up, And there is none opening, Judah hath been removed--all of her, She hath been removed completely--
20. Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where [is] the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?
21. What dost thou say, when He looketh after thee? And thou--thou hast taught them [to be] over thee--leaders for head? Do not pangs seize thee as a travailing woman?
22. And when thou dost say in thy heart, `Wherefore have these met me?' For the abundance of thine iniquity Have thy skirts been uncovered, Have thy heels suffered violence.
23. Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
24. And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.
25. This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me--an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.
26. I also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.
27. Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, The wickedness of thy whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, Thou art not cleansed, after when [is it] again?