Jeremiah 22:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵But if you don’t listen to these words, I swear,” declares the Lord, “that this house will become a ruin.”’” ⁶For this is what the Lord says about the house of the king of Judah,

“You are like Gilead to me,
    like the summit of Lebanon.
Yet I’ll surely make you a desert,
    towns where no one lives.
⁷I’ll appoint people to destroy you—
    men with their weapons.
They’ll cut down some of your choice cedars^[a]
    and incinerate them.