“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 or the fatherless, nor to the widow, neither shed innocent…”
Jeremiah 22
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1This is what the LORD says: "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
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2saying, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
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3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
4For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
“For if ye do this thing indeed, then there shall enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and horses, he and his servants and his people.”
5But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.'"
“But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a desolation.”
6For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: "You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
“For thus saith the Lord unto the king's house of Judah. Thou art Gilead unto me and the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make thee a wilderness. And the cities which are not inhabited.”
7I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
“I will prepare the destroyers against the everyone with his weapons. And they shall cut down your choice cedars. And cast them into the fire.”
8And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?'
“And many nations shall pass by this city. And they shall say every man to his neighbor. Why has the Lord done this unto this great city?”
9Then people will reply, 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.'"
“Then they shall answer. Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God. And worshipped other gods and served them.”
10Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
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11For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: "He will never return,
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12but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again."
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13"Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
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14who says, 'I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.' So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
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15Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
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16He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?" declares the LORD.
“He that judgeth the cause of the poor and the needy, then it was well with him. Was not this to know me, saith the Lord.”
“He judged the cause of the poor, the needy. Then it was well with him? Was not this to know me, saith the Lord?”
17"But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression."
“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.”
18Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: "They will not mourn for him: 'Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!' They will not mourn for him: 'Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!'
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19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
“he will be buried with the burial of an ass that is drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
20Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
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21I warned you when you were secure. You said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
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22The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
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23O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor."
“inhabitant of Lebanon, that makes thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail.”
24"As surely as I live," declares the LORD, "even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
“As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence.”
25In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
“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 to the hand of the Chaldeans.”
26I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
“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.”
27You will never return to the land for which you long."
“But to the land whereunto they desire to return thither shall they not return.”
“But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.”
“But to the land to which they desire to return. There shall they not return.”
28Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
“Is this man, Jeconiah, 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?”
“Is this man Coniah, a despised, broken idol? Is he a vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they do not know?”
“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.”
29O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!
“O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.”
“O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord.”
“O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.”
“"'O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord,'”
“O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord,”
“O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.”
30This is what the LORD says: "Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah."
“Thus saith the Lord, Write ye concerning Jokaniah,. This man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days, for no man of his seed shall prosper sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.”
“Thus says the Lord, write this man down as childless. A man who shall not prosper in his days, for none of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.”
“Thus says the Lord, verse 30, Write this man down childless, a man who will not prosper in his days. And listen to this. For no man of his descendants will prosper sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.”