Jeremiah 22:13-19

Revised Standard Version

¹³ “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
    and his upper rooms by injustice;
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,’
and cuts out windows for it,
    paneling it with cedar,
    and 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 do justice and righteousness?
    Then it was well with him.
¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
    then it was well.
Is not this to know me?
                says the Lord.
¹⁷ But you have eyes and heart
    only for your dishonest gain,
for shedding innocent blood,
    and for practicing oppression and violence.”