And I will [a]prepare destroyers against thee, everyone with his weapons, and they shall cut down thy chief [b]cedar trees, and cast them in the fire.

[c]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.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:7 The Hebrew word signifieth to sanctify, because the Lord doth dedicate to his use and purpose such as he prepareth to execute his work, Isa. 13:3; Jer. 6:4 and 12:3.
  2. Jeremiah 22:7 Thy buildings made of Cedar trees.
  3. 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.

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