Jeremiah:22
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Go down to the house of the king of Judah ,
and speak there this word ,
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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 sha #
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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 .
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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 .
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But if ye will not hear these words ,
I swear by myself ,
saith the LORD ,
that this house shall become a desolation .
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For thus saith the LORD unto the kings house of Judah ;
Thou art Gilead unto me ,
and the head of Lebanon :
yet srely I will make thee a wilderness ,
and cities which are not inhabited (
8675 ).
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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 .
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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 ?
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Then they shall answer ,
Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God ,
and worshipped other gods ,
and served them .
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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 .
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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 :
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But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive ,
and shall see this land no more .
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Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness ,
and his chambers by wrong ;
that useth his neighbours service without wages ,
and giveth him not for his work po #
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That saith ,
I will build me a wide house and large chambers ,
and cutteth him out windows ;
and it is cieled with cedar ,
and painted with vermilion .
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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 ?
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He judged the cause of the poor and needy ;
then it was well with him :
was not this to know me ?
saith the LORD .
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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 .
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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 !
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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass ,
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem .
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Go up to Lebanon ,
and cry ;
and lift up thy voice in Bashan ,
and cry from the passages :
for all thy lovers are destroyed .
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I spake unto thee in thy prosperity ;
but thou saidst ,
I will not hear .
This hath been thy manner from thy youth na #
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that thou obeyedst not my voice .
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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 .
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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 !
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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 ;
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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 .
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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 .
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But to the land whereunto they desire (
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to return ,
thither shall they not return .
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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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O earth ,
earth ,
earth ,
hear the word of the LORD .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Write ye 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 .