5But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.
6For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.
7And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.
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:
