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Jeremiah 22:7

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And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

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  1. Jeremiah 22:5

    But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

  2. Jeremiah 22:6

    For thus saith the Lord unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

  3. Jeremiah 22:8

    And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?

  4. Jeremiah 22:9

    Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

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