Jeremiah 22:7
“(V. 6,-8.) Because this is what the Lord says about the house (or to the house) of the king of Judah, Gilead, you are to me the head (or the beginning) of Lebanon. If I do not make you a desolation, cities uninhabitable. And I will consecrate (or build) upon you the one who kills men, and his weapons: and they will cu…”
Source: Septuagint
7and I will bring upon thee a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
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5But if ye will not perform these words, by myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, that this house shall be brought to desolation.
6For thus saith the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah; Thou art Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a desert, even cities that shall not be inhabited:
— Jeremiah 22:7 —
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.