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So says Jehovah, Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak this Word there,

and say, Hear the Word of Jehovah, O king of Judah who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.

So says Jehovah, Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one robbed from the oppressor's hand. And do not oppress the alien, the widow, or the orphan, and do not do violence nor shed innocent blood in this place.

For if you indeed do this thing, then there shall enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he and his servants and his people.

But if you will not hear these Words, I swear by Myself, says Jehovah, that this house shall become a ruin.

For so says Jehovah concerning the king of Judah's house, You are Gilead to Me, the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities not inhabited.

And I will consecrate destroyers against you, each one with his weapons; and they will cut down your choice cedars and make them fall into the fire.

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall each say to one another, Why has Jehovah done this to this great city?

Then they will answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God and worshiped other gods and served them.