Jeremiah:22

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* Thus said Yahweh : Go down to the house of the king of Judah , and speak there this word , * Say , Hear the word of Yahweh , king of Judah , who sits on the throne of David , you , and your servants , and your people who enter in by these gates . * Thus says Yahweh : Execute justice and righteousness , and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor : and do no wrong , do no violence , to the foreigner , the fatherless , nor the widow ; neither shed innocent blood in this place . * For if you do this thing indeed , then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David , riding in chariots and on horses , he , and his servants , and his people . * But if you will not hear these words , I swear by myself , says Yahweh , that this house shall become a desolation . * For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah : You are Gilead to me , the head of Lebanon . Yet surely I will make you a wilderness , cities which are not inhabited . * I will prepare destroyers against you , everyone with his weapons ; and they shall cut down your choice cedars , and cast them into the fire . * Many nations shall pass by this city , and they shall say every man to his neighbor , Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city ? * Then they shall answer , Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God , and worshiped other gods , and served them . * Don 't weep for the dead , neither bemoan him ; but weep bitterly for him who goes away ; for he shall return no more , nor see his native country . * For thus says Yahweh 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 there any more . * But in the place where they have led him captive , there shall he die , and he shall see this land no more . * Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness , and his rooms by injustice ; who uses his neighbor 's service without wages , and doesn 't give him his hire ; * who says , I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms , and cuts him out windows ; and it is ceiling with cedar , and painted with vermilion . * Shall you reign , because you strive to excel in cedar ? Didn 't your father eat and drink , and do justice and righteousness ? then it was well with him . * He judged the cause of the poor and needy ; then it was well . Wasn 't this to know me ? says Yahweh . * But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness , and for shedding innocent blood , and for oppression , and for violence , to do it . * Therefore thus says Yahweh 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 ! * He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey , drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem . * Go up to Lebanon , and cry ; and lift up your voice in Bashan , and cry from Abarim ; for all your lovers are destroyed . * I spoke to you in your prosperity ; but you said , I will not hear . This has been your way from your youth , that you didn 't obey my voice . * The wind shall feed all your shepherds , and your lovers shall go into captivity : surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness . * Inhabitant of Lebanon , who makes your nest in the cedars , how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you , the pain as of a woman in travail ! * As I live , says Yahweh , though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand , yet would I pluck you there ; * and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life , and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid , even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon , and into the hand of the Chaldeans . * I will cast you out , and your mother who bore you , into another country , where you were not born ; and there you will die . * But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return , there shall they not return . * Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel ? is he a vessel in which none delights ? why are they cast out , he and his seed , and are cast into the land which they don 't know ? * O earth , earth , earth , hear the word of Yahweh . * Thus says Yahweh , Write you this man childless , a man who shall not prosper in his days ; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper , sitting on the throne of David , and ruling in Judah .

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