Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 22:5

"But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a desolation." — Jeremiah 22:5 (ASV)

I swear by myself. —The formula is an exceptionally rare one, but appears in Genesis 22:16. In Deuteronomy 32:40 the same thought is embodied in the language of the loftiest poetry. The principle in both cases is that which the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews dwells on in Jeremiah 6:13. Men swear by the greater, but God can swear by nothing greater than Himself.

This house. —The context determines the application of the word as meaning the king’s palace, not the Temple.