7. "For I will set apart destroyers against you, Each with his weapons; And they will cut down your choicest cedars And throw them on the fire.
8. "Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?'
9. Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.'"
10. Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him, But weep continually for the one who goes away; For he will never return Or see his native land.
11. For thus says the Lord in regard to Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place, "He will never return there;
12. but in the place where they led him captive, there he will die and not see this land again.
13. "Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness And his upper rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor's services without pay And does not give him his wages,