20 Jerusalem, look! Your enemies are coming down from the north! Where are the people entrusted to your care, your people you were so proud of
21 What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.
22 If you ask why all this has happened to you—why your clothes have been torn off and you have been raped—it is because your sin is so terrible.
23 Can people change the color of their skin, or a leopard remove its spots? If they could, then you that do nothing but evil could learn to do what is right.
24 The Lord will scatter you like straw that is blown away by the desert wind.
25 He has said that this will be your fate. This is what he has decided to do with you, because you have forgotten him and have trusted in false gods.
26 The Lord himself will strip off your clothes and expose you to shame.