Jeremiah 22
22Thus says the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,H559H3068H3381H1004H4428H3063H1696H16972and say: Hear the word of the LORD, O King of Judah sitting on the throne of David—you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates.H559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3427H3678H1732H5650H5971H935H81793Thus says the LORD: Act with justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.H559H3068H6213H4941H6666H5337H1497H3027H6216H3238H2554H1616H3490H490H8210H5355H1818H47254For if you will indeed obey this word, then through the gates of this house shall enter kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their servants, and their people.H6213H1697H6213H935H8179H1004H4428H3427H3678H1732H7392H7393H5483H5650H59715But if you will not heed these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.H8085H1697H7650H5002H3068H1004H27236For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I swear that I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.H559H3068H4428H1004H3063H1568H7218H3844H7896H4057H5892H3427H34277I will prepare destroyers against you, all with their weapons; they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.H6942H7843H376H3627H3772H4005H730H5307H7848And many nations will pass by this city, and all of them will say one to another, "Why has the LORD dealt in this way with that great city?"H7227H1471H5674H5892H559H376H7453H3068H6213H1419H58929And they will answer, "Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods and served them."H559H5800H1285H3068H430H7812H312H430H564710Do not weep for him who is dead, nor bemoan him; weep rather for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.H1058H4191H5110H1058H1058H1980H7725H7200H4138H77611For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum son of King Josiah of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah, and who went away from this place: He shall return here no more,H559H3068H413H7967H1121H2977H4428H3063H4427H2977H1H3318H4725H772512but in the place where they have carried him captive he shall die, and he shall never see this land again.H4191H4725H1540H7200H77613Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbors work for nothing, and does not give them their wages;H1945H1129H1004H3808H6664H5944H4941H7453H5647H2600H5414H646714who says, "I will build myself a spacious house with large upper rooms," and who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.H559H1129H4060H1004H7304H5944H7167H2474H5603H730H4886H835015Are you a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.H4427H8474H730H1H398H8354H6213H4941H6666H289616He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the LORD.H1777H1779H6041H34H2896H1847H5002H306817But your eyes and heart are only on your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.H5869H3820H1215H8210H5355H1818H6233H4835H621318Therefore thus says the LORD concerning King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah: They shall not lament for him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" or "Alas, sister!" They shall not lament for him, saying, "Alas, lord!" or "Alas, his majesty!"H559H3068H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H5594H1945H251H1945H269H5594H1945H113H1945H193519With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried—dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.H6912H6900H2543H5498H7993H1973H8179H338920Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are crushed.H5927H3844H6817H5414H6963H1316H6817H5676H157H766521I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, "I will not listen." This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.H1696H7962H559H8085H1870H5271H8085H696322The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and dismayed because of all your wickedness.H7307H7462H7462H157H3212H7628H954H3637H745123O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!H3427H3844H7077H730H2603H2256H935H2427H320524As I live, says the LORD, even if King Coniah son of Jehoiakim of Judah were the signet ring on my right hand, even from there I would tear you offH2416H5002H3068H3659H1121H3079H4428H3063H2368H3225H3027H542325and give you into the hands of those who seek your life, into the hands of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hands of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon and into the hands of the Chaldeans.H5414H3027H1245H5315H3027H6440H3016H3027H5019H4428H894H3027H377826I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.H2904H517H3205H312H776H3205H419127But they shall not return to the land to which they long to return.H776H5375H5315H7725H772528Is this man Coniah a despised broken pot, a vessel no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out and cast away in a land that they do not know?H376H3659H959H5310H6089H3627H2656H7993H2233H2904H776H304529O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!H776H776H776H8085H1697H306830Thus says the LORD: Record this man as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days; for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David, and ruling again in Judah.H559H3068H3789H376H6185H1397H6743H3117H376H2233H6743H3427H3678H1732H4910H3063
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