Jeremiah 22:11-30
English Standard Version
Message to the Sons of Josiah
11 For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and (A)who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more, 12 but (B)in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.”
13 (C)“Woe to him who builds his house by (D)unrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by injustice,
(E)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 (F)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 (G)do justice and righteousness?
(H)Then it was well with him.
16 (I)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
(J)then it was well.
Is not this (K)to know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(L)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
(M)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
(N)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
(O)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey (P)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 (Q)Abarim,
for all (R)your lovers are destroyed.
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
(S)This has been your way from (T)your youth,
that you have not obeyed my voice.
22 (U)The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and (V)your lovers shall go into captivity;
(W)then you will be ashamed and confounded
because of all your evil.
23 O inhabitant of (X)Lebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
(Y)pain as of a woman in labor!”
24 (Z)“As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were (AA)the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25 and (AB)give you (AC)into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 (AD)I will hurl you and (AE)the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”
28 Is this man (AF)Coniah a despised, broken pot,
a (AG)vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a (AH)land that they do not know?
29 (AI)O land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord!
30 Thus says the Lord:
“Write this man down as (AJ)childless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
(AK)for none of his offspring shall succeed
(AL)in sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.”
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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