29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘Thus says the Lord: “You have burned this scroll, saying, (A)‘Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and cause man and beast to (B)cease from here?’ ” 30 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: (C)“He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be (D)cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. 31 I will punish him, his [a]family, and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the doom that I have pronounced against them; but they did not heed.” ’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 36:31 Lit. seed

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