Jer 22
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Thus said YHWH: 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 YHWH, O king of Judah, that sit upon the throne of David,
you, and your servants, and your people that enter in by these gates.
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Thus says YHWH: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him whom is robbed
out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner,
the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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For if you 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 you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says YHWH, that this house
shall become a desolation.
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For thus says YHWH concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me,
[and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities
which are not inhabited.
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And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with his weapons; and they shall
cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
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And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor,
Wherefore has YHWH done thus to this great city?
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Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of YHWH their God, and worshiped
other gods, and served them.
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Weep you not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him whom goes away;
for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
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For thus says YHWH touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned
instead of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not
return there any more.
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But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall
see this land no more.
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Woe to him whom builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice;
that uses his neighbor`s service without wages, and gives him not his hire;
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that says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows;
and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and
drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know
me? says YHWH.
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But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent
blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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Therefore thus says YHWH 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.
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Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim;
for all your lovers are destroyed.
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I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your
manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.
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The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely
then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
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O inhabitant of Lebanon, that make your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied
shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
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As I live, says YHWH, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet
upon my right hand, yet would I pluck you thence;
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and I will give you into the hand of them that seek your life, and into the hand of
them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
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And I will cast you out, and your mother that bare you, into another country, where
you were not born; and there shall you die.
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But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.
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Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delights?
wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they
know not?
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O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of YHWH.
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Thus says YHWH, Write you this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his
days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David,
and ruling in Judah.