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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 22: 7 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.
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?'
Jeremiah 22: 9 Then they shall answer: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.'
Jeremiah 22: 10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Jeremiah 22: 11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not return thither any more;
Jeremiah 22: 12 but in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
Jeremiah 22: 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;
Jeremiah 22: 14 That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Jeremiah 22: 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Jeremiah 22: 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know Me? saith the LORD.
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