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But if you do not obey these commands, I swear by myself—oracle of the Lord: this house shall become rubble. For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:

Though you be to me like Gilead,
    like the peak of Lebanon,
I swear I shall turn you into a waste,
    with cities uninhabited.
Against you I will send destroyers,
    each with their tools:
They shall cut down your choice cedars,
    and cast them into the fire.(A)

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But if you do not obey(A) these commands, declares the Lord, I swear(B) by myself that this palace will become a ruin.’”

For this is what the Lord says about the palace of the king of Judah:

“Though you are like Gilead(C) to me,
    like the summit of Lebanon,(D)
I will surely make you like a wasteland,(E)
    like towns not inhabited.
I will send destroyers(F) against you,
    each man with his weapons,
and they will cut(G) up your fine cedar beams
    and throw them into the fire.(H)

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