World English Bible
Jeremiah 22:21
“I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 22
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He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
21
I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.
22
The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall 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!
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