Jeremiah 22:8-12

“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this great city?’

Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.’ ”

Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him, But weep deeply for the one who goes away; For he will never return Or see his native land.

For this is what the Lord says regarding Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in the place of his father Josiah, who went out from this place: “He will never return there;

but in the place where they took him into exile, there he will die and he will not see this land again. Messages about the Kings