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Jeremiah 22:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Against you I will send destroyers, each with their tools: They shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

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Through the mouths of your messengers you have insulted the Lord when you said: ‘With my many chariots I went up to the tops of the peaks, to the recesses of Lebanon, To cut down its lofty cedars, its choice cypresses; I reached the farthest shelter, the forest ranges.

Their widows were more numerous before me than the sands of the sea. I brought against the mother of youths the destroyer at midday; Suddenly I struck her with anguish and terror.

I will punish you—oracle of the Lord— as your deeds deserve! I will kindle a fire in its forest that shall devour all its surroundings.

Beware! I will bring against you a nation from far away, O House of Israel—oracle of the Lord; A long-lived nation, an ancient nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you cannot understand.

Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars!

The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.




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