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Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’”

10 Don’t weep for the dead.
    Don’t bemoan him;
but weep bitterly for him who goes away,
    for he will return no more,
    and not see his native country.

11 For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.

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