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And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down
thy choice cedars, and cast
them
into the fire.
8
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they
shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the L
ORD
done thus unto this great city?
9
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the L
ORD
their God, and
worshipped other gods, and served them.
10
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him:
but
weep sore for him that goeth away: for
he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
11
For thus saith the L
ORD
touching Shallum the
son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this
place; He shall not return thither any more:
12
But he shall die in the place whither they have led
him captive, and shall see this land no more.
13
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong;
that
useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
14
That saith, I will
build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and
it is
cieled with cedar,
and painted with vermilion.
15
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest
thyself
in cedar? did not thy
father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice,
and
then
it was
well with him?
16
He judged the
cause of the poor and needy; then
it was
well
with him: was
not this to know me? saith the L
ORD
.
17
But thine eyes and thine heart
are
not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood,
and for oppression, and for violence, to do
it.
18
Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
concerning Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him,
saying,
Ah my brother! or, Ah sister!
they shall not lament for him,
saying,
Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
19
He shall be buried with the burial
of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for
all thy lovers are destroyed.
21
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity;
but
thou saidst, I will not hear.
This
hath been
thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
22
The wind shall eat
up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and
confounded for all thy wickedness.
23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars,
how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
24
As
I
live, saith the L
ORD
, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my
right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
25
And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek
thy life, and into the hand
of them
whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother
that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
27
But to the
land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
28
Is
this man Coniah a despised
broken idol?
is he
a vessel wherein
is
no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed,
and are cast into a land which they know not?
29
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the L
ORD
.
30
Thus saith the L
ORD
, Write ye this man childless, a man
that
shall not prosper in his days: for no
man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
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