Jeremiah 22:6-8

Good News Translation

⁶ “To me, Judah's royal palace is as beautiful as the land of Gilead and as the Lebanon Mountains; but I will make it a desolate place where no one lives. ⁷ I am sending men to destroy it. They will all bring their axes, cut down its beautiful cedar pillars, and throw them into the fire.

⁸ “Afterward many foreigners will pass by and ask one another why I, the Lord, have done such a thing to this great city.