Jeremiah 22
22This is what the LORD says: "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and announce this word there.H559H3068H3381H1004H4428H3063H1696H16972You are to say: Hear the word of the LORD, king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David— you, your officers, and your people who enter these gates.H559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3427H3678H1732H5650H5971H935H81793This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Don't exploit or brutalize the alien, the fatherless, or the widow. Don't shed innocent blood in this place.H559H3068H6213H4941H6666H5337H1497H3027H6216H3238H2554H1616H3490H490H8210H5355H1818H47254For if you conscientiously carry out this word, then kings sitting on David's throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses— they, their officers, and their people.H6213H1697H6213H935H8179H1004H4428H3427H3678H1732H7392H7393H5483H5650H59715But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself"— [this is] the LORD's declaration— "that this house will become a ruin."H8085H1697H7650H5002H3068H1004H27236For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are like Gilead to Me, [or] the summit of Lebanon, but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.H559H3068H4428H1004H3063H1568H7218H3844H7896H4057H5892H3427H34277I will appoint destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.H6942H7843H376H3627H3772H4005H730H5307H7848"Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another: Why did the LORD do such a thing to this great city?H7227H1471H5674H5892H559H376H7453H3068H6213H1419H58929They will answer: Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped and served other gods."H559H5800H1285H3068H430H7812H312H430H564710Do not weep for the dead; do not mourn for him. Weep bitterly for the one who has gone away, for he will never return again and see his native land.H1058H4191H5110H1058H1058H1980H7725H7200H4138H77611For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded Josiah his father as king: "He has left this place— he will never return here again,H559H3068H413H7967H1121H2977H4428H3063H4427H2977H1H3318H4725H772512but he will die in the place where they deported him, never seeing this land again."H4191H4725H1540H7200H77613Woe for the one who builds his palace through unrighteousness, his upper rooms through injustice, who makes his fellow man serve without pay and will not give him his wages,H1945H1129H1004H3808H6664H5944H4941H7453H5647H2600H5414H646714who says: I will build myself a massive palace, with spacious upper rooms. He will cut windows in it, and it will be paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.H559H1129H4060H1004H7304H5944H7167H2474H5603H730H4886H835015Are you a king because you excel in cedar? Your own father, did he not eat and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, then it went well with him.H4427H8474H730H1H398H8354H6213H4941H6666H289616He took up the case of the poor and needy, then it went well. Is this not what it means to know Me? [This is] the LORD's declaration.H1777H1779H6041H34H2896H1847H5002H306817But you have eyes and heart for nothing except your own unjust gain, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.H5869H3820H1215H8210H5355H1818H6233H4835H621318Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not mourn for him, [saying,] Woe, my brother! or Woe, [my] sister! They will not mourn for him, saying, Woe, lord! Woe, his majesty!H559H3068H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H5594H1945H251H1945H269H5594H1945H113H1945H193519He will be buried [like] a donkey, dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.H6912H6900H2543H5498H7993H1973H8179H338920Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.H5927H3844H6817H5414H6963H1316H6817H5676H157H766521I spoke to you when you were secure. You said: I will not listen. This has been your way since youth; indeed, you have never listened to Me.H1696H7962H559H8085H1870H5271H8085H696322The wind will take charge of all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your evil.H7307H7462H7462H157H3212H7628H954H3637H745123You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come on you, agony like a woman in labor.H3427H3844H7077H730H2603H2256H935H2427H320524"As I live," says the LORD, "though you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would tear you from it.H2416H5002H3068H3659H1121H3079H4428H3063H2368H3225H3027H542325In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Chaldeans.H5414H3027H1245H5315H3027H6440H3016H3027H5019H4428H894H3027H377826I will hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land, where neither of you were born, and there you will both die.H2904H517H3205H312H776H3205H419127They will never return to the land they long to return to."H776H5375H5315H7725H772528Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot, a jar no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they have not known?H376H3659H959H5310H6089H3627H2656H7993H2233H2904H776H304529Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD!H776H776H776H8085H1697H306830This is what the LORD says: Record this man as childless, a man who will not be successful in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.H559H3068H3789H376H6185H1397H6743H3117H376H2233H6743H3427H3678H1732H4910H3063
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