Then they will [a]answer, ‘Because they (A)forsook the covenant of the Lord their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.’”

10 (B)Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him,
But weep continually for the one who goes away;
For (C)he will never return
Or see his native land.

11 For thus says the Lord in regard to [b](D)Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place, “He will never return there;

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:9 Lit say
  2. Jeremiah 22:11 I.e. Jehoahaz