Jeremiah:22

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ylt @Jeremiah:22:1 @Thus said Jehovah , 'Go down [to ] the house of the king of Judah , and thou hast spoken there this word , and hast said , ylt @Jeremiah:22:2 @Hear a word of Jehovah , O king of Judah , who art sitting on the throne of David , thou , and thy servants , and thy people , who are coming in at these gates , ylt @Jeremiah:22:3 @Thus said Jehovah : Do ye judgment and righteousness , And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor , And sojourner , orphan , and widow , ye do not oppress nor wrong , And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place . ylt @Jeremiah:22:4 @For , if ye certainly do this thing , Then come in by the gates of this house Have kings sitting for David on his throne , Riding on chariot , and on horses , He , and his servants , and his people . ylt @Jeremiah:22:5 @And if ye do not hear these words , By myself I have sworn -- an affirmation of Jehovah , That this house is for a desolation . ylt @Jeremiah:22:6 @For thus said Jehovah , Concerning the house of the king of Judah : Gilead [art ] thou to Me -- head of Lebanon , If not -- I make thee a wilderness , Cities not inhabited . ylt @Jeremiah:22:7 @And I have separated for thee destroyers , Each with his weapons , And they have cut down the choice of thy cedars , And have cast them on the fire . ylt @Jeremiah:22:8 @And many nations have passed by this city , And they have said , each to his neighbour , For what hath Jehovah done thus to this great city ? ylt @Jeremiah:22:9 @And they have said , 'Because that they have forsaken The covenant of Jehovah their God , And bow themselves to other gods , and serve them .' ylt @Jeremiah:22:10 @Ye do not weep for the dead , nor bemoan for him , Weep ye sore for the traveller , For he doth not return again , Nor hath he seen the land of his birth . ylt @Jeremiah:22:11 @For thus said Jehovah concerning Shallum son of Josiah king of Judah , who is reigning instead of Josiah his father , who hath gone forth from this place : He doth not turn back hither again ; ylt @Jeremiah:22:12 @For in the place whither they have removed him he dieth , And this land he doth not see again . ylt @Jeremiah:22:13 @Wo to him who is building his house by unrighteousness , And his upper chambers by injustice , On his neighbour he layeth service for nought , And his wage he doth not give to him . ylt @Jeremiah:22:14 @Who is saying , 'I build for myself a large house , And airy upper chambers ,' And he hath cut out for himself its windows , Ceiled with cedar , and painted with vermillion . ylt @Jeremiah:22:15 @Dost thou reign , because thou art fretting thyself in cedar ? Thy father -- did he not eat and drink ? Yea , he did judgment and righteousness , Then [it is ] well with him . ylt @Jeremiah:22:16 @He decided the cause of the poor and needy , Then [it is ] well -- is it not to know Me ? An affirmation of Jehovah . ylt @Jeremiah:22:17 @But thine eyes and thy heart are not , Except on thy dishonest gain , And on shedding of innocent blood , And on oppression , and on doing of violence . ylt @Jeremiah:22:18 @Therefore , thus said Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah : They do not lament for him , Ah , my brother , and Ah , sister , They do not lament for him , Ah , lord , and Ah , his honour . ylt @Jeremiah:22:19 @The burial of an ass -- he is buried , Dragged and cast out thence to the gates of Jerusalem . ylt @Jeremiah:22:20 @Go up to Lebanon , and cry , And in Bashan give forth thy voice , And cry from Abarim , For destroyed have been all loving thee . ylt @Jeremiah:22:21 @I have spoken unto thee in thine ease , Thou hast said , 'I do not hearken ,' This [is ] thy way from thy youth , For thou hast not hearkened to My voice . ylt @Jeremiah:22:22 @All thy friends consume doth wind , And thy lovers into captivity do go , Surely then thou art ashamed , And hast blushed for all thy wickedness . ylt @Jeremiah:22:23 @O dweller in Lebanon , making a nest among cedars , How gracious hast thou been when pangs come to thee , Pain -- as of a travailing woman . ylt @Jeremiah:22:24 @I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah , Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah Were a seal on My right hand , Surely thence I draw thee away , ylt @Jeremiah:22:25 @And I have given thee into the hand of those seeking thy life , And into hands of which thou art afraid , Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon , And into the hand of the Chaldeans . ylt @Jeremiah:22:26 @And I have cast thee , And thy mother who bore thee , unto another country , Where ye were not born , and there do ye die . ylt @Jeremiah:22:27 @And to the land whither they are lifting up their soul to return , Thither they do not return . ylt @Jeremiah:22:28 @A grief -- a despised broken thing -- is this man Coniah ? A vessel in which there is no pleasure ? Wherefore have they been cast up and down , He and his seed , Yea , they were cast on to a land that they knew not ? ylt @Jeremiah:22:29 @Earth , earth , earth , hear a word of Jehovah , ylt @Jeremiah:22:30 @Thus said Jehovah : Write ye this man childless , A man -- he doth not prosper in his days , For none of his seed doth prosper , Sitting on the throne of David , And ruling again in Judah !

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