Jeremiah 13:21
King James VersionSource notes
“What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them captains, as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?”
Context
18Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, the crown of your glory.
19The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
20Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where the flock was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them captains, as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
22And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, thy heels made bare.
23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
24Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.