Focused Passage
The Ruined Belt and the Shame of Judah’s Pride
The chapter moves from the symbolic ruined linen belt, to the wine jars filled with drunken judgment, to a call to humble oneself before darkness falls, to royal humiliation and exile, to the exposure of Judah's shame, and finally to the devastating question of whether those habituated to evil can change themselves.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
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.
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