7. I will appoint destroyers against you,each with his weapons.They will cut down the choicest of your cedarsand throw them into the fire.
8. “Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this great city? ’
9. They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and worshiped and served other gods.’ ”
10. Do not weep for the dead;do not mourn for him.Weep bitterly for the one who has gone away,for he will never return againand see his native land.
11. For this is what the Lord says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of his father Josiah: “He has left this place — he will never return here again,
12. but he will die in the place where they deported him, never seeing this land again.”
13. Woe for the one who builds his palacethrough unrighteousness, his upper rooms through injustice,who makes his fellow man serve without payand will not give him his wages,