9. Then they will answer: ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Adonai their God, and worshipped other gods and served them.’”
10. Weep not for the dead or bemoan him. Weep bitterly for him who departs, for he will never return, or see his native country again.
11. For thus says Adonai to Shallum, son of King Josiah of Judah, who became king in place of his father Josiah: “He who went forth from this place will never return there.
12. Instead, in the place where they led him captive, there will he die—he will see this land no more.”
13. Oy to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his roof-chambers by injustice, that makes his neighbor work without pay, never giving him his wages,
14. who says: “I will build myself a big house with spacious rooms and cut out my windows for it, and panel it with cedar, and paint it with vermilion!
15. Did you become king just to be striving with cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.