Jeremiah 22:13-23

English Standard Version

^13 (A)“Woe to him who builds his house by ^(B)unrighteousness,
    and his upper rooms by injustice,
^(C)who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
    and does not give him his wages,
¹⁴ who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
    with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
    paneling it with cedar
    and ^(D)painting it with vermilion.
¹⁵ Do you think you are a king
    because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
    and ^(E)do justice and righteousness?
    ^(F)Then it was well with him.
^16 (G)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
    ^(H)then it was well.
Is not this ^(I)to know me?
    declares the Lord.
¹⁷ But you have eyes and heart
    only for your dishonest gain,
^(J)for shedding innocent blood,
    and for practicing oppression and violence.”

^(K)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
    ^(L)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
    ^(M)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
¹⁹ With the burial of a donkey ^(N)he shall be buried,
    dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

²⁰ “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
    and lift up your voice in Bashan;
cry out from ^(O)Abarim,
    for all ^(P)your lovers are destroyed.
²¹ I spoke to you in your prosperity,
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
^(Q)This has been your way from ^(R)your youth,
    that you have not obeyed my voice.
^22 (S)The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
    and ^(T)your lovers shall go into captivity;
^(U)then you will be ashamed and confounded
    because of all your evil.
²³ O inhabitant of ^(V)Lebanon,
    nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
    ^(W)pain as of a woman in labor!”