Jeremiah 22:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷I will prepare destroyers against you,
all with their weapons;
they shall cut down your choicest cedars
and cast them into the fire.^(A)

⁸And many nations will pass by this city, and all of them will say one to another, “Why has the Lord dealt in this way with that great city?”^(B) ⁹And they will answer, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”^(C)