[a]And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?

Then shall they answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

10 ¶ Weep not for the dead, and be not moved for them, but weep for him [b]that goeth out: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:8 As they that wonder at a thing which they thought would never have come so to pass, Deut. 29:24; 1 Kings 9:8.
  2. Jeremiah 22:10 Signifying, that they should lose their king: for Jehoiachin went forth to meet Nebuchadnezzar and yielded himself, and was carried into Babylon, 2 Kings 24:12.

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