Thou art Gilead unto me,
and the head of Lebanon:
yet surely I will make thee a wilderness,
and cities which are not inhabited.
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.

¹⁰ Weep ye not for the dead,
neither bemoan him:
but weep sore [weep weeping] for him that goeth away:
for he shall return no more,
nor see [this] his native country.

¹³ Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness [in not righteousness],
and his chambers by wrong [in not judgment;
that useth his neighbour's service without wages,
and giveth him not for his work;
¹⁴ That saith,
I will build me a wide house
and large chambers,
and cutteth him out windows;
and it is cieled with cedar,
and painted with vermilion.
¹⁵ Shalt thou reign,
because thou closest thyself in cedar?
did not thy father eat
and drink,
and do judgment
and justice,
and then it was well with him?
¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
then it was well with him:
was not this to know me?
saith the LORD.
¹⁷ But thine eyes
and thine heart
are not but for thy covetousness,
and for to shed innocent blood,
and for oppression,
and for violence,
to do it.

They shall not lament for him,
saying,
Ah my brother!
or, Ah sister!
they shall not lament for him,
saying, Ah lord!
or, Ah his glory!
¹⁹ He shall be buried
with the burial of an ass,
drawn
and cast forth
beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁰ Go up to Lebanon,
and cry;
and lift up thy voice in Bashan,
and cry from the passages:
for all thy lovers are destroyed.
²¹ I spake unto thee in thy prosperity;
but thou saidst,
I will not hear.
This hath been thy manner from thy youth,
that thou obeyedst not my voice.
²² The wind shall eat up all thy pastors,
and thy lovers shall go into captiviy:
surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded
for all thy wickedness.
²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon,
that makest thy nest in the cedars,
how gracious shalt thou be
when pangs come upon thee,
the pain as of a woman in travail!