5. But if you do not obey these commands, declares the Lord, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.’ ”
6. For this is what the Lord says about the palace of the king of Judah: “Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited.
7. I will send destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut up your fine cedar beams and throw them into the fire.