Jeremiah

⁹Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’” ¹⁰Don’t weep for the dead.Don’t bemoan him;but weep bitterly for him who goes away,for he will return no more,and not see his native country. ¹¹For the Lord says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more. ¹²But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.” ¹³“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,and his rooms by injustice;who uses his neighbor’s service without wages,and doesn’t give him his hire; ¹⁴who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’and cuts out windows for himself;with a cedar ceiling,and painted with red. ¹⁵“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar?Didn’t your father eat and drink,and do justice and righteousness?Then it was well with him.