Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 22:10
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“Jeremiah too laments over his impenitent people, saying, "O that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for … my people!" And further on he gives a reason for his lamentation: "Do not weep for the dead," he writes, "or bemoan him, but weep sorely for him who goes away, for…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10Weep not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep bitterly for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.
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8And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?
9And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped strange gods, and served them.
— Jeremiah 22:10 —
11For thus saith the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, who reigns in the place of Josiah his father, who has gone forth out of this place; He shall not return thither anymore:
12but in that place whither I have carried him captive, there shall he die, and shall see this land no more.