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JER-22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king
of Judah, and
speak there this word,
JER-22:2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah,
that sittest
upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people
that enter in
by these gates:
JER-22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and
righteousness, and
deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no
wrong, do no
violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither
shed innocent
blood in this place.
JER-22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter
in by the
gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David,
riding in chariots
and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
JER-22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself,
saith the
LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
JER-22:6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah;
Thou [art]
Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will
make thee a
wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.
JER-22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one
with his
weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast
[them] into the
fire.
JER-22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they
shall say every
man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
this great city?
JER-22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of
the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
JER-22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but]
weep sore for
him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his
native country.
JER-22:11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of
Josiah king of
Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went
forth out of
this place; He shall not return thither any more:
JER-22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led
him captive,
and shall see this land no more.
JER-22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his
chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without
wages, and
giveth him not for his work;
JER-22:14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large
chambers, and
cutteth him out windows; and [it is] ceiled with cedar, and
painted with
vermilion.
JER-22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in
cedar? did not
thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and]
then [it was]
well with him?
JER-22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it
was] well [with
him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.
JER-22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy
covetousness,
and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for
violence, to do
[it].
JER-22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim
the son of
Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, [saying],
Ah my brother!
or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord!
or, Ah his
glory!
JER-22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn
and cast forth
beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
JER-22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in
Bashan, and cry
from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
JER-22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou
saidst, I will not
hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou
obeyedst not my
voice.
JER-22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers
shall go into
captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for
all thy
wickedness.
JER-22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the
cedars, how
gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of
a woman in
travail!
JER-22:24 [As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim
king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I
pluck thee
thence;
JER-22:25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek
thy life, and
into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, even into the
hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
JER-22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare
thee, into
another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
JER-22:27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return,
thither shall they
not return.
JER-22:28 [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he]
a vessel
wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and
his seed, and
are cast into a land which they know not?
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