Jeremiah 22
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Judgment Against Evil Kings
1This is what the Lord says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah. Prophesy this message there: 2‘Hear the word of the Lord, king of Judah. You rule from David’s throne. You and your officers, listen well! All of your people who come through these gates, listen! 3This is what the Lord says: Do what is fair and right. Protect those who have been robbed from those who robbed them. Don’t do any wrong to the orphans or widows. Don’t hurt them. Don’t kill innocent people here. 4If you carefully obey these commands, this is what will happen: Kings who sit on David’s throne will come through the gates of this palace. They will come with their officers and people. They will all come riding in chariots and on horses. 5But if you don’t obey these commands, this is what the Lord says: I promise in my own name that this king’s palace will become a ruin.’”
6This is what the Lord says about the palace where the king of Judah lives:
“This palace is tall like the forests of Gilead.
It is high like the mountains of Lebanon.
But I will truly make it like a desert.
It will be empty like towns where no one lives.
7I will send men to destroy the palace.
Each man will have his weapons with him.
They will cut up your strong, beautiful cedar beams.
And they will throw them into the fire.
8“People from many nations will pass by this city. They will ask each other, ‘Why has the Lord done such a terrible thing to Jerusalem? This was such a great city.’ 9And the answer will be: ‘It was because the people of Judah quit following the agreement with the Lord their God. They worshiped and served other gods.’”
Judgment Against Jehoahaz
10Don’t cry for the king who has died. Don’t cry loudly for him.
But cry painfully for the king who is being taken away from here.
Cry for him because he will never come back again.
He will never see his homeland again.
11This is what the Lord says about Jehoahaz son of Josiah. Jehoahaz became king of Judah after his father died. He has left this place. The Lord says, “He will never come back again. 12He will die where those who captured him have taken him. He will not see this land again.”
Judgment Against Jehoiakim
13“How terrible it will be for him who builds his palace by doing evil.
He cheats people so he can build its upper rooms.
He is making his own people work for nothing.
He is not paying them for their work.
14He says, ‘I will build a great palace for myself.
I will have large upper rooms.’
So he builds the palace with large windows.
He uses cedar wood for the walls.
And he paints it red.
15“Does having a lot of cedar in your house
make you a great king?
Your father was satisfied to have food and drink.
He did what was right and fair.
So everything went well for him.
16He helped those who were poor and needy.
So everything went well for him.
That’s what it means to know God,” says the Lord.
17“But your eyes only look for what you can get dishonestly.
You are always thinking about getting more for yourself.
You are even willing to kill innocent people to get it.
You are making it hard for people.
You even steal things from them.”
18So this is what the Lord says to Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
“The people of Judah will not cry loudly when Jehoiakim dies.
They will not say, ‘Oh, my brother, I am so sad!
Oh, my sister, I am so sad!’
The people of Judah will not cry for him, saying:
‘Oh, master, oh, my king.’
19The people of Jerusalem will bury him like a donkey.
They will just drag his body away.
Then they will throw it outside the gates of Jerusalem.
20“Judah, go up to Lebanon and cry out.
Let your voice be heard in Bashan.
Cry out from Abarim.
All your friends are destroyed!
21Judah, when you were successful, I warned you.
But you refused to listen.
You have acted like this since you were young.
You have not obeyed me.
22My punishment will come like a storm.
And it will blow all your shepherds away.
Your friends will be taken away as captives.
Then you will really be ashamed.
You will be disgraced because of all the wicked things you did.
23King, you live in your palace.
You are cozy in your rooms of cedar.
But you will groan when your punishment comes.
You will hurt like a woman giving birth to a baby!
Judgment upon Jehoiachin
24“As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “I will do this to you, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah: Even if you were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off. 25Jehoiachin, I will give you to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And I will hand you over to the Babylonians. Those are the people you are afraid of because they want to kill you. 26I will throw you and your mother into another country. Neither of you was born there. But both of you will die there. 27You will want to come back. But you will never be able to return.”
28Jehoiachin is like a broken pot someone threw away.
He is like something no one wants.
Why will Jehoiachin and his children be thrown out?
Why will they be thrown into a foreign land?
29Land, land, land of Judah,
hear the word of the Lord!
30This is what the Lord says:
“Write this down about Jehoiachin:
He is a man who is to have no children.
He will not be successful in his lifetime.
And none of his children will be successful.
None of his children will sit on the throne of David.
They will not rule in Judah.”
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Jeremiah 22
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1Thus says the Lord: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word, 2and say, #Jer. 17:20‘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 these gates! 3Thus says the Lord: #Is. 58:6; Jer. 21:12; (Mic. 6:8); Zech. 7:9; 8:16; Matt. 23:23“Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the #Jer. 7:6; Zech. 7:10fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. 4For if you indeed do this thing, #Jer. 17:25then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David. 5But if you will not hear these words, #Matt. 23:38; Heb. 6:13, 17I swear by Myself,” says the Lord, “that this house shall become a desolation.” ’ ”
6For thus says the Lord to the house of the king of Judah:
“You are #Gen. 37:25; Num. 32:1; Song 4:1Gilead to Me,
The head of Lebanon;
Yet I surely will make you a wilderness,
Cities which are not inhabited.
7I will prepare destroyers against you,
Everyone with his weapons;
They shall cut down #Is. 37:24your choice cedars
#Jer. 21:14And cast them into the fire.
8And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, #Deut. 29:24–26; 1 Kin. 9:8, 9; 2 Chr. 7:20–22; Jer. 16:10‘Why has the Lord done so to this great city?’ 9Then they will answer, #2 Kin. 22:17; 2 Chr. 34:25; Jer. 11:3‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.’ ”
10Weep not for #2 Kin. 22:20the dead, nor bemoan him;
Weep bitterly for him #Jer. 14:17; 22:11; Lam. 3:48who goes away,
For he shall return no more,
Nor see his native country.
Message to the Sons of Josiah
11For thus says the Lord concerning #1 Chr. 3:15Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, #2 Kin. 23:34; 2 Chr. 36:4; Ezek. 19:4who went from this place: “He shall not return here anymore, 12but he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
13“Woe#2 Kin. 23:35; Jer. 17:11; Ezek. 22:13 to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
And his chambers by injustice,
#Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14, 15; Mic. 3:10; Hab. 2:9; James 5:4Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages
And gives him nothing for his work,
14Who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house with spacious chambers,
And cut out windows for it,
Paneling it with cedar
And painting it with vermilion.’
15“Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink,
And do justice and righteousness?
Then #2 Kin. 23:25; Ps. 128:2; Is. 3:10; Jer. 7:23; 42:6it was well with him.
16He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
Then it was well.
Was not this knowing Me?” says the Lord.
17“Yet#Jer. 6:13; 8:10; Ezek. 19:6; (Luke 12:15–20) your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,
For shedding innocent blood,
And practicing oppression and violence.”
18Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
#Jer. 16:4, 6“They shall not lament for him,
Saying, #1 Kin. 13:30‘Alas, my brother!’ or ‘Alas, my sister!’
They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’
19#1 Kin. 21:23, 24; 2 Chr. 36:6; Jer. 36:30; Dan. 1:2He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
And lift up your voice in Bashan;
Cry from Abarim,
For all your lovers are destroyed.
21I spoke to you in your prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not hear.’
#Jer. 3:24, 25; 32:30This has been your manner from your youth,
That you did not obey My voice.
22The wind shall eat up all #Jer. 23:1your rulers,
And your lovers shall go into captivity;
Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated
For all your wickedness.
23O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like #Jer. 6:24the pain of a woman in labor?
Message to Coniah
24“As I live,” says the Lord, #2 Kin. 24:6, 8; 1 Chr. 3:16; 2 Chr. 36:9; Jer. 37:1“though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, #Song 8:6; Is. 49:16; Hag. 2:23were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off; 25#2 Kin. 24:15, 16; Jer. 34:20and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear—the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans. 26#2 Kin. 24:15; Jer. 10:18; 16:13So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die. 27But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.
28“Is this man Coniah a despised, broken idol—
#Ps. 31:12; Jer. 48:38; Hos. 8:8A vessel in which is no pleasure?
Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know?
29#Deut. 32:1; Is. 1:2; 34:1; Mic. 1:2O earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!
30Thus says the Lord:
‘Write this man down as #1 Chr. 3:16, 17; Matt. 1:12childless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For #Ps. 94:20; Jer. 36:30none of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”
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