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Jeremiah 22:8

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“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’

Context

5But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.” ’ ”
6For Yahweh says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.
7I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
8“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’
9Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’ ”
10Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.
11For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of Josiah), king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.

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