Jeremiah 22:1-9 - Judgment Against Sinful Kings
1 Thus said the LORD also, "Go down in to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there these words, 2 and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, thou king of Judah that sittest in the kingly seat of David: thou, and thy servants, and thy people, that go in and out at this gate. 3 Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place. 4 And if ye keep these things faithfully, then shall there come in at the door of this house, kings, to sit upon David's seat: they shall be carried in Chariots and ride upon horses, both they and their servants, and their people. 5 But if ye will not be obedient unto these commandments, I swear by mine own self, sayeth the LORD, this house shall be waste.
6 For thus hath the LORD spoken upon the king's house of Judah: Thou art the head, as Gilead is in Lebanon: What wilt thou lay of it, if I make thee and thy cities also not so waste that no man shall dwell therein? 7 I will prepare a destroyer with his weapons for thee, to hew down thy special Cedar trees, and to cast them in the fire.
8 And all the people that go by this city, shall speak one to another: Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this noble city? 9 Then shall it be answered: Because they have broken the covenant of the LORD their God, and have worshipped and served strange gods.'"