“You are Gilead to me,
    the head of Lebanon.
Yet surely I will make you a wilderness,
    cities which are not inhabited.
⁷ I will prepare destroyers against you,
    everyone with his weapons,
and they will cut down your choice cedars,
    and cast them into the fire.

¹⁰ Don’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.

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;
¹⁴ who 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.
¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
    so it was well, then.
Wasn’t this to know me?”
    says Yahweh.
¹⁷ But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness,
    for shedding innocent blood,
    for oppression, and for doing violence.”

“They won’t lament for him,
    saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’
They won’t lament for him,
    saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’
¹⁹ He will be buried with the burial of a donkey,
    drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

²⁰ “Go up to Lebanon, and cry.
    Lift up your voice in Bashan,
and cry from Abarim;
    for all your lovers have been destroyed.
²¹ I spoke to you in your prosperity;
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
This has been your way from your youth,
    that you didn’t obey my voice.
²² The wind will feed all your shepherds,
    and your lovers will go into captivity.
Surely then you will be ashamed
    and confounded for all your wickedness.
²³ Inhabitant of Lebanon,
    who makes your nest in the cedars,
how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you,
    the pain as of a woman in travail!

²⁸ Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel?
    Is he a vessel in which no one delights?
Why are they cast out, he and his offspring,
    and cast into a land which they don’t know?
²⁹ O earth, earth, earth,
    hear Yahweh’s word!
³⁰ Yahweh says,
    “Record this man as childless,
    a man who will not prosper in his days;
for no more will a man of his offspring prosper,
    sitting on David’s throne,
    and ruling in Judah.”