10. Don't weep for the dead.Don't bemoan him;but weep bitterly for him who goes away,for he will return no more,and not see his native country.

11. For the LORD says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: "He won't return there any more.

12. But in the place where they have led him captive, there will he die, and he will see this land no more."