10 Do not weep for him who is dead,nor mourn for him!Weep rather for him who is going away;never again to seethe land of his birth.
11 Thus says the Lord concerning Shallum, son of Josiah, king of Judah, his father’s successor, who left this place: He shall never return,
12 but in the place where they exiled him, there he shall die; he shall never see this land again.
13 Woe to him who builds his house on wrongdoing,his roof-chambers on injustice;Who works his neighbors without pay,and gives them no wages.
14 Who says, “I will build myself a spacious house,with airy rooms,”Who cuts out windows for it,panels it with cedar,and paints it with vermilion.
15 Must you prove your rank among kingsby competing with them in cedar?Did not your father eat and drink,And act justly and righteously?Then he prospered.
16 Because he dispensed justice to the weak and the poor,he prospered.Is this not to know me?—oracle of the Lord.