World English Bible
Jeremiah 22:7
“I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 22
But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.
For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.
I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?
Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.
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Warnings of Jerusalem’s fall and promises of a new covenant.
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