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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: |
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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. |
6 |
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 cities which are not inhabited. |
7 |
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. |
8 |
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. |
10 |
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. |
11 |
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. |
13 |
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and
his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without
wages, and giveth him not for his work; |
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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? |
16 |
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well
with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. |
17 |
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. |
18 |
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. |
20 |
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan,
and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. |
21 |
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will
not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou
obeyedst not my voice. |
22 |
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. |
23 |
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! |
24 |
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; |
25 |
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. |
26 |
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. |
27 |
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither
shall they not return. |
28 |
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? |
29 |
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. |
30 |
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. |