For if you will indeed obey this word, (A)then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people. But if you will not obey these words, I (B)swear by myself, declares the Lord, that (C)this house shall become a desolation. For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“‘You are like Gilead to me,
    like the summit of (D)Lebanon,
yet surely I will make you a desert,
    (E)an uninhabited city.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:6 Hebrew cities

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