“But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”
Jeremiah 22:5 (WEB)
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3Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place. 4For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses — they, their servants, and their people. 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.