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Then people[a] will respond, ‘It is[b] because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have bowed down to other gods and served them.’

10 “Don’t cry for the dead
    or grieve for them.
Weep bitterly for the one going away,
    because he won’t return again
        nor see the land of his birth.

11 “For this is what the Lord says about Josiah’s son Shallum,[c] king of Judah, who reigned in place of his father Josiah: ‘He went out from this place and won’t return to it again.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:9 Lit. they’ll say
  2. Jeremiah 22:9 The Heb. lacks It is
  3. Jeremiah 22:11 Shallum (also known as Jehoahaz) succeeded his father Josiah, but was removed by the Egyptians after three months and exiled to Egypt.