THE
BOOK OF JEREMIAH
Jeremiah Chapter
22
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¶ The LORD said; Go down to the house of the king of
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Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David,
you, and your servants, and your people who enter through these gates:
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The LORD says; Do what is right and just, deliver those who are robbed from the
hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the foreigner, the
orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
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For if you do what I say, then kings yet to sit on the throne of David will
come through the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, with
their servants, and people.
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But if you will not heed these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that
this house will become a ruin.
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For the LORD says this about the palace of the king of
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And I will prepare an army to destroy you, every one with his weapons: and they
will cut down your choice cedars, and throw them into the fire.
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And many nations will pass by this city, and will ask one another, Why has the
LORD done this to this great city?
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Then they will answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD
their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
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¶ Do not weep for the dead, or mourn for him: but cry bitterly over him
who is going away: for he will never return, or see his native country.
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For the LORD says this concerning Shallum the son of Josiah king of
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But he will die in the place where they have led him captive, and will never
see this land again.
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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his halls by wrong; who
uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and does not pay him for his work;
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Who says, I will build a large house for myself, with large rooms, and fashion
windows for myself; and panel it with cedar, painted red.
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Will you be king, because you surround yourself with cedar? didn’t your
father, as he ate and drank, do what is just and right, and then it
was well with him?
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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then everything went well for
him: is not this what it means to know me? asks the LORD.
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But your eyes and your heart are committed to covetousness, and to
shedding innocent blood, and practicing oppression, and violence.
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Therefore the LORD says this concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
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He will be buried like a donkey, dragged outside the gates of
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¶ Go up to
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I spoke to you when all was well; but you said, I will not listen. This has
been your way since you were young, you have refused to listen to me.
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The wind will consume all your leaders, and your allies will go into captivity:
then you will surely be ashamed and humiliated because of your wickedness.
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O you who live in
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As I live, says the LORD, even if Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of
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And put you in the hands of those who seek your life, and in the hands of
those you dread, even in the hands of Nebuchadrezzar the king of
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And I will hurl you, and the mother who bore you, out into another country,
where you were not born; and you will die there.
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But they will not come back to the country they long to return to, they will
never come back.
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Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered bowl? is he a
container that no one wants? why are he and his descendants discarded, and
thrown into a land they have not known?
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O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
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The LORD says, Write off this man as childless, a man who will not
prosper in his lifetime: for none of his offspring will succeed, in
sitting upon the throne of David, or ruling again in Judah.