6. For thus says the Lord about the house of the king of Judah: You are to me like Gilead, the head of Lebanon. Certainly, I will make you desolate, with uninhabitable cities.
7. And I will sanctify over you the destroying man and his weapons. And they will cut down your select cedars and throw them violently into the fire.
8. And many nations will pass through this city. And each one will say to his neighbor: 'Why has the Lord acted in this way toward this great city?'
9. And they will answer: 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, and they adored strange gods and served them.'
10. You should not choose to weep for the dead, nor should you mourn over them with tears. Lament for him who is departing, for he will return no more, nor will he see his native land again.
11. For thus says the Lord to Shallum, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned in place of his father, who has departed from this place: He will not return here again.
12. Instead, he will die in the place to which I have transferred him, and he will not see this land anymore.
13. Woe to one who builds his house with injustice and his upper rooms without judgment, who oppresses his friend without cause and does not pay him his wages.