Jeremiah:22

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asv @Jeremiah:22:1 @Thus said Jehovah : Go down to the house of the king of Judah , and speak there this word , asv @Jeremiah:22:2 @And say , Hear the word of Jehovah , O king of Judah , that sittest upon the throne of David , thou , and thy servants , and thy people that enter in by these gates . asv @Jeremiah:22:3 @Thus saith Jehovah : Execute ye justice and righteousness , and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor : and do no wrong , do no violence , to the sojourner , the fatherless , nor the widow ; neither shed innocent blood in this place . asv @Jeremiah: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 . asv @Jeremiah:22:5 @But if ye will not hear these words , I swear by myself , saith Jehovah , that this house shall become a desolation . asv @Jeremiah:22:6 @For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king 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 . asv @Jeremiah: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 . asv @Jeremiah:22:8 @And many nations shall pass by this city , and they shall say every man to his neighbor , Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city ? asv @Jeremiah:22:9 @Then they shall answer , Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God , and worshipped other gods , and served them . asv @Jeremiah: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 . asv @Jeremiah:22:11 @For thus saith Jehovah touching Shallum the son of Josiah , king of Judah , who reigned instead of Josiah his father , and who went forth out of this place : He shall not return thither any more . asv @Jeremiah:22:12 @But in the place whither they have led him captive , there shall he die , and he shall see this land no more . asv @Jeremiah:22:13 @Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness , and his chambers by injustice ; that useth his neighbor 's service without wages , and giveth him not his hire ; asv @Jeremiah:22:14 @that saith , I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers , and cutteth him out windows ; and it is ceiled with cedar , and painted with vermilion . asv @Jeremiah:22:15 @Shalt thou reign , because thou strivest to excel in cedar ? Did not thy father eat and drink , and do justice and righteousness ? then it was well with him . asv @Jeremiah:22:16 @He judged the cause of the poor and needy ; then it was well . Was not this to know me ? saith Jehovah . asv @Jeremiah:22:17 @But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness , and for shedding innocent blood , and for oppression , and for violence , to do it . asv @Jeremiah:22:18 @Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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 ! asv @Jeremiah:22:19 @He shall be buried with the burial of an ass , drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem . asv @Jeremiah:22:20 @Go up to Lebanon , and cry ; and lift up thy voice in Bashan , and cry from Abarim ; for all thy lovers are destroyed . asv @Jeremiah: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 . asv @Jeremiah:22:22 @The wind shall feed all thy shepherds , and thy lovers shall go into captivity : surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness . asv @Jeremiah:22:23 @O inhabitant of Lebanon , that makest thy nest in the cedars , how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee , the pain as of a woman in travail ! asv @Jeremiah:22:24 @As I live , saith Jehovah , though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand , yet would I pluck thee thence ; asv @Jeremiah:22:25 @and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life , and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid , even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon , and into the hand of the Chaldeans . asv @Jeremiah: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 . asv @Jeremiah:22:27 @But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return , thither shall they not return . asv @Jeremiah:22:28 @Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel ? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth ? wherefore are they cast out , he and his seed , and are cast into the land which they know not ? asv @Jeremiah:22:29 @O earth , earth , earth , hear the word of Jehovah . asv @Jeremiah:22:30 @Thus saith Jehovah , Write ye this man childless , a man that shall not prosper in his days ; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper , sitting upon the throne of David , and ruling in Judah .

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