7. I will prepare destroyers against you,everyone with his weapons,and they will cut down your choice cedars,and cast them into the fire.
8. “Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbour, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this great city?’
9. Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, worshipped other gods, and served them.’”
10. Don’t weep for the dead.Don’t bemoan him;but weep bitterly for him who goes away,for he will return no more,and not see his native country.
11. For the Lord says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.