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For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good," declares Yahweh. It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire."'

And if you indeed obey this word, then kings who sit for David on his throne will enter through the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah, "You are like Gilead to me, like the head of the Lebanon. Surely I will make you a desert, like cities that are not inhabited.

You must not weep for the dead person, and you must not show sympathy for him. Weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will not return, or see the land of his birth again.

For thus says Yahweh concerning Shallum, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned as king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: "He will not return here again.

Woe to the one who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.

Who says ‘I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,' and he cuts windows for it, and it is paneled with cedar, and he paints it with vermilion.

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: "They will not lament for him, ‘Alas, my brother,' or ‘Alas, sister.' They will not lament for him, ‘Alas, lord,' or ‘alas, his majesty.'

Go up to Lebanon and cry out, and in Bashan lift up your voice, and cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are shattered.

I spoke to you in the times you were secure, and you said, ‘I will not listen!' This was your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.

As for the land to which they are longing to return, they will not return.

Thus says Yahweh: "Record this man as childless, a man who will not succeed in his days, for no man from his offspring will succeed him, sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah."

Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people, "You yourselves have scattered my flock, and you have driven them away, and you do not attend to them. Look, I will punish you for the evil of your deeds," declares Yahweh.

"Look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign as king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.

For the land is full of adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the desert are dry, and their evil has been their way of running, and their power is not right.

"For both prophet as well as priest are godless, even in my temple I have found their wickedness," declares Yahweh.

"Therefore their way will be to them like the slippery places, they will be pushed in the darkness, and they will fall into it, for I will bring disaster on them in the year of their punishment," declares Yahweh.

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets, "Look, I am going to let them eat wormwood and I will give them water of poison to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem went out ungodliness to all the land."

For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he has seen and heard his word? Who has listened attentively to his word and heard it?

But you shall not mention the burden of Yahweh, for the burden is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.