1This is what the LORD says: “Go down…
2saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O…
3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice…
4For if you will indeed carry out these…
5But if you do not obey these words,…
6For this is what the LORD says concerning…
7I will appoint destroyers against you, each man…
8And many nations will pass by this city…
9Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken…
10Do not weep for him who is dead;…
11For this is what the LORD says concerning…
12but he will die in the place to…
13“Woe to him who builds his palace by…
14who says, ‘I will build myself a great…
15Does it make you a king to excel…
16He took up the cause of the poor…
17“But your eyes and heart are set on…
18Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning…
19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged…
20Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise…
21I warned you when you were secure. You…
22The wind will drive away all your shepherds,…
23O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars,…
24“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD,…
25In fact, I will hand you over to…
26I will hurl you and the mother who…
27You will never return to the land for…
28Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered…
29O land, land, land, hear the word of…
30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this…
