‏ Jeremiah 22

CHAPTER 22

The Word against the King's House

1Thus says the lord, Go, and go down to the house of the king of Judah! And you shall speak there   this word. 2And you shall say, Hear the word of the lord, O king of Judah, O one sitting down upon the throne of David, you and   your servants, and   your people, and the ones entering   by these gates! 3Thus says the lord, Execute equity and righteousness, and rescue the one being plundered from out of the hand of the one wronging him! And the foreigner, and orphan, and widow, do not tyrannize! And do not be impious! And [⁴blood ³innocent ¹you should not ²pour out] in   this place. 4For if doing you should do   this word, then [²shall enter ³in ⁴the ⁵gates   ⁶of this house ¹kings] sitting down upon the throne of David, and mounting upon chariots, and horses, they and   their children, and   their people. 5But if you should not do   these words, according to myself I swear by an oath, says the lord, that [³for ⁴desolation ²will be   ¹this house]. 6For thus says the lord  against the house of the king of Judah. You are Gilead to me, head   of Lebanon. Should I not make you desolate, cities not being dwelt in? 7And I will bring upon you an annihilating man, and   his hewing axe. And they shall cut down   [²chosen ³cedars ¹your], and shall put them  into the fire. 8And [³shall go ²nations ¹many] through   this city. And they shall say each to   his neighbor, Why did the lord do thus to [³city ¹this   ²great]? 9And they shall say, Because they abandoned the covenant of the lord    their God, and did obeisance to strange gods, and they served to them. 10Do not weep for the one having died, nor lament him! Weep! by weeping for the one going forth, for he shall not return again, nor shall he see the land of his fatherland.

The Word against Shallum

11For thus says the lord  against Shallum, son of Josiah king   of Judea, who reigned for Josiah   his father, who came forth from out of   this place, He shall not return there again. 12But in the place where I displaced him, there he shall die, and   this land he shall not see again. 13O the one building his house with no righteousness, and   his rooms without equity; for to him the neighbor works without pay, and   his wage in no way shall he give over to him. 14You built to yourself a house well-proportioned, with upper rooms ventilated, separated by windows, and being boarded by cedar, and being coated in vermilion. 15Should you reign, because you are provoked with Ahaz   your father? Shall they not eat and shall they not drink? It is best for you to execute equity and [²righteousness ¹fair]. 16They did not know, they did not judge with equity to the humble, nor with equity to the needy. [²this not ¹Is] because of  [²not ³knowing ¹your] me, says the lord? 17Behold, [²are not   ¹your eyes] nor   your heart good, but they are  for   your desire for wealth, and for the [³blood   ²innocent   ¹pouring out], and for offences, and for murder,   to do them. 18On account of this, thus says the lord  against Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Woe against   this man. In no way should they lament him, saying, O brother. Nor shall they weep over  him, saying, Alas, O lord. 19As the burial of a donkey he shall be buried; being scraped away he shall be tossed beyond the gate of Jerusalem. 20Ascend unto   Lebanon, and cry out! And [³unto   ⁴Bashan ¹give out   ²your voice], and yell unto the end of the sea! for [³were defeated ¹all   ²your lovers]. 21I spoke to you in   your transgression, and you said, I will not hearken. This   is your way from your youth, you hearkened not to   my voice. 22All   your shepherds shall tend the wind, and   your lovers [²into ³captivity ¹shall go forth]; for then you shall be ashamed, and shall be disgraced because of all the ones being fond of you. 23O one dwelling in   Lebanon, nesting among the cedars, you shall groan in the [²coming ³to you ¹griefs], pangs as one giving birth.

The Word to Coniah

24As I live, says the lord, Though in coming to pass [⁶should become ¹Coniah ²son ³of Jehoiakim ⁴king ⁵of Judah] a seal upon   [²hand   ¹my right], from there will I pull you out. 25And I will deliver you up into the hands of the ones seeking   your life, whom you are cautious from in front of them, even into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king   of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldeans. 26And I will throw you and   your mother, the one giving birth to you, into a land of which you were not birthed there; and there you shall die. 27And unto the land which they made a vow in  their souls, there in no way shall they return. 28Coniah is disgraced as a vessel which there is no need of; for he was cast forth and cast into a land which he did not know. 29O land, O land, hear the word of the lord! 30Thus says the lord, Write up   this man [²banished by public proclamation ¹as a man]! For in no way should there be anything grown from out of   his seed, a man sitting down upon the throne of David, ruling again in   Judah.