“You are ^(F)Gilead to Me,
The head of Lebanon;
Yet I surely will make you a wilderness,
Cities which are not inhabited.
⁷ I will prepare destroyers against you,
Everyone with his weapons;
They shall cut down ^(G)your choice cedars
^(H)And cast them into the fire.

¹⁰ Weep not for ^(K)the dead, nor bemoan him;
Weep bitterly for him ^(L)who goes away,
For he shall return no more,
Nor see his native country.

¹³ “Woe^(O) to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
And his ^[d]chambers by injustice,
^(P)Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages
And gives him nothing for his work,
¹⁴ Who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house with spacious ^[e]chambers,
And cut out windows for it,
Paneling it with cedar
And painting it with vermilion.’

¹⁵ “Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink,
And do justice and righteousness?
Then ^(Q)it was well with him.
¹⁶ He ^[f]judged the cause of the poor and needy;
Then it was well.
Was not this knowing Me?” says the Lord.
¹⁷ “Yet^(R) your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,
For shedding innocent blood,
And practicing oppression and violence.”

^(S)“They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ^(T)‘Alas, my brother!’ or ‘Alas, my sister!’
They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’
^19 (U)He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁰ “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
And lift up your voice in Bashan;
Cry from Abarim,
For all your lovers are destroyed.
²¹ I spoke to you in your prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not hear.’
^(V)This has been your manner from your youth,
That you did not obey My voice.
²² The wind shall eat up all ^(W)your ^[g]rulers,
And your lovers shall go into captivity;
Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated
For all your wickedness.
²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like ^(X)the pain of a woman in ^[h]labor?

²⁸ “Is this man ^[l]Coniah a despised, broken idol—
^(AC)A vessel in which is no pleasure?
Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know?
^29 (AD)O earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!
³⁰ Thus says the Lord:
‘Write this man down as ^(AE)childless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For ^(AF)none of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”