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29 and unto Jehoiakim king of Judah thou dost say: Thus said Jehovah, Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Wherefore hast thou written on it, saying, The king of Babylon surely cometh in, and hath destroyed this land, and caused to cease from it man and beast?

30 `Therefore, thus said Jehovah, concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He hath none sitting on the throne of David, and his carcase is cast out to heat by day, and to cold by night;

31 and I have charged on him, and on his seed, and on his servants, their iniquity; and I have brought in on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto the men of Judah, all the evil that I have spoken unto them, and they hearkened not.'

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29 Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned that scroll and said, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it(A) both man and beast?”(B) 30 Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim(C) king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out(D) and exposed(E) to the heat by day and the frost by night.(F) 31 I will punish him and his children(G) and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster(H) I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.(I)’”

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