Jeremiah 22
22:1Thus says the lord, Go, and go down to the house of the king of Judah! And you shall speak there this word.
22:2And you shall say, Hear the word of the lord, O king of Judah, O one sitting down upon the throne of David, you and your servants, and your people, and the ones entering by these gates!
22:3Thus says the lord, Execute equity and righteousness, and rescue the one being plundered from out of the hand of the one wronging him! And the foreigner, and orphan, and widow, do not tyrannize! And do not be impious! And you should not pour out innocent blood in this place.
22:4For if doing you should do this word, then kings shall enter in the gates of this house sitting down upon the throne of David, and mounting upon chariots, and horses, they and their children, and their people.
22:5But if you should not do these words, according to myself I swear by an oath, says the lord, that this house will be for desolation.
22:6For thus says the lord against the house of the king of Judah. You are Gilead to me, head of Lebanon. Should I not make you desolate, cities not being dwelt in?
22:7And I will bring upon you an annihilating man, and his hewing axe. And they shall cut down your chosen cedars, and shall put them into the fire.
22:8And many nations shall go through this city. And they shall say each to his neighbor, Why did the lord do thus to this great city?
22:9And they shall say, Because they abandoned the covenant of the lord their God, and did obeisance to strange gods, and they served to them.
22:10Do not weep for the one having died, nor lament him! Weep! by weeping for the one going forth, for he shall not return again, nor shall he see the land of his fatherland.
22:11For thus says the lord against Shallum, son of Josiah king of Judea, who reigned for Josiah his father, who came forth from out of this place, He shall not return there again.
22:12But in the place where I displaced him, there he shall die, and this land he shall not see again.
22:13O the one building his house with no righteousness, and his rooms without equity; for to him the neighbor works without pay, and his wage in no way shall he give over to him.
22:14You built to yourself a house well-proportioned, with upper rooms ventilated, separated by windows, and being boarded by cedar, and being coated in vermilion.
22:15Should you reign, because you are provoked with Ahaz your father? Shall they not eat and shall they not drink? It is best for you to execute equity and fair righteousness.
22:16They did not know, they did not judge with equity to the humble, nor with equity to the needy. Is this not because of your not knowing me, says the lord?
22:17Behold, your eyes are not nor your heart good, but they are for your desire for wealth, and for the pouring out innocent blood, and for offences, and for murder, to do them.
22:18On account of this, thus says the lord against Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Woe against this man. In no way should they lament him, saying, O brother. Nor shall they weep over him, saying, Alas, O lord.
22:19As the burial of a donkey he shall be buried; being scraped away he shall be tossed beyond the gate of Jerusalem.
22:20Ascend unto Lebanon, and cry out! And give out your voice unto Bashan, and yell unto the end of the sea! for all your lovers were defeated.
22:21I spoke to you in your transgression, and you said, I will not hearken. This is your way from your youth, you hearkened not to my voice.
22:22All your shepherds shall tend the wind, and your lovers shall go forth into captivity; for then you shall be ashamed, and shall be disgraced because of all the ones being fond of you.
22:23O one dwelling in Lebanon, nesting among the cedars, you shall groan in the griefs coming to you, pangs as one giving birth.
22:24As I live, says the lord, Though in coming to pass Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah should become a seal upon my right hand, from there will I pull you out.
22:25And I will deliver you up into the hands of the ones seeking your life, whom you are cautious from in front of them, even into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldeans.
22:26And I will throw you and your mother, the one giving birth to you, into a land of which you were not birthed there; and there you shall die.
22:27And unto the land which they made a vow in their souls, there in no way shall they return.
22:28Coniah is disgraced as a vessel which there is no need of; for he was cast forth and cast into a land which he did not know.
22:29O land, O land, hear the word of the lord!
22:30Thus says the lord, Write up this man as a man banished by public proclamation! For in no way should there be anything grown from out of his seed, a man sitting down upon the throne of David, ruling again in Judah.