Jeremiah:22

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* Thus saith Jehovah : Go down to the house of the king of Judah , and speak there this word , * 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 who enter in through these gates . * Thus saith Jehovah : Execute 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 , or the widow , and shed not innocent blood in this place . * For if ye do this thing indeed , then shall there enter in through the gates of this house kings sitting in the place of David upon his throne , riding in chariots and on horses , -- he , and his servants , and his people . * But if ye will not hear these words , I have sworn by myself , saith Jehovah , that this house shall become a waste . * For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah : Thou art a Gilead unto me , the summit of Lebanon : verily I will make thee a wilderness , cities not inhabited . * And I will prepare destroyers against thee , every one with his weapons ; and they shall cut down the choice of thy cedars , and cast [them ] into the fire . * And many nations shall pass by this city , and they shall say every man to his neighbour , Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city ? * And they shall say , Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God , and worshipped other gods , and served them . * Weep 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 . * For thus saith Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of Josiah , the king of Judah , who reigned instead of Josiah his father , who went forth out of this place : He shall not return thither any more ; * for he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive , and shall see this land no more . * Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness , and his upper chambers by injustice ; that taketh his neighbour 's service without wages , and giveth him not his earning ; * that saith , I will build me a wide house , and spacious upper chambers ; and he cutteth out for himself windows ; and it is wainscoted with cedar , and painted with vermilion . * Shalt thou reign , because thou viest with the cedar ? Did not thy father eat and drink , and do judgment and justice ? Then it was well with him . * He judged the cause of the poor and needy ; then it was well . Was not this to know me ? saith Jehovah . * But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion , and on the blood of the innocent , to shed it , and on oppression and on violence , to do it . * Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah , the king of Judah : They shall not lament for him , Ah , my brother ! or , Ah , sister ! They shall not lament for him , Ah , lord ! or Ah , his glory ! * He shall be buried with the burial of an ass , dragged along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem . * Go up to Lebanon , and cry ; and give forth thy voice in Bashan , and cry from [the heights of ] Abarim : for all thy lovers are destroyed . * I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity ; [but ] thou saidst , I will not hear . This hath been thy way from thy youth , that thou hearkenedst not unto my voice . * The wind shall feed on all thy shepherds , and thy lovers shall go into captivity ; surely , then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness . * Thou inhabitress of Lebanon , that makest thy nest in the cedars , how pitiful shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee , pain as of a woman in travail ! * [As ] I live , saith Jehovah , though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim , the king of Judah , were a signet upon my right hand , yet will I pluck thee thence ; * and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life , and into the hand of them before whom thou art afraid , even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon , and into the hand of the Chaldeans . * 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 . * And into the land whereunto they lift up their souls to return , thither shall they not return . * Is this man Coniah a despised broken vase ? a vessel wherein is no delight ? Wherefore are they thrown out , he and his seed , and are cast into a land which they know not ? * O earth , earth , earth , hear the word of Jehovah ! * Thus saith Jehovah : Write this man childless , a man that shall not prosper in his days ; for no man of his seed shall prosper , sitting upon the throne of David , and ruling any more in Judah .

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