8And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?
9And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.
10Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.
11For this is what the Lord has said about Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will never come back there again:
12But death will come to him in the place where they have taken him away prisoner, and he will never see this land again.
13A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
14Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.
