Jeremiah 22
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Judgment against Sinful Kings
1This is what the Lord says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and announce this word there. 2You are to say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David#2Sm 3:10; 1Kg 2:12,24,45; Is 9:7; Jr 17:25; 22:30; 29:16; 36:30 — you, your officers, and your people who enter these gates. 3This is what the Lord says: Administer justice and righteousness.#2Sm 8:15; 1Kg 10:9; 2Ch 9:8; Is 33:5; 59:14; Jr 9:24; 23:5; 33:15; Am 5:7,24 Rescue the victim of robbery from his oppressor.#Dt 28:29; Ps 35:10; Ec 4:1; Jr 21:12 Don’t exploit or brutalize the resident alien, the fatherless, or the widow.#Dt 14:29; 24:17,19–21; 27:19; Ps 146:9; Jr 7:6; Ezk 22:7 Don’t shed innocent blood in this place. 4For if you conscientiously carry out this word, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace#Jr 17:25 riding on chariots and horses — they, their officers, and their people. 5But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by myself#Gn 22:16; 1Sm 3:14; Ps 89:3,35; Is 45:23; 54:9; Jr 44:26; 49:13 — this is the Lord’s declaration — that this house will become a ruin.’”#Jr 17:27
6For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah:
“You are like Gilead#Sg 4:1; Jr 8:22; 46:11; 50:19; Mc 7:14; Zch 10:10 to me,
or the summit of Lebanon,
but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness,
uninhabited cities.
7I will set apart destroyers#Ex 12:23; 2Sm 24:16; Is 54:16 against you,
each with his weapons.
They will cut down the choicest of your cedars
and throw them into the fire.
8“Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this great city?’ 9They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant#Dt 29:24–25; 1Kg 19:10,14 of the Lord their God and bowed in worship to other gods and served them.’”#Dt 30:17
A Message concerning Shallum
10Do not weep for the dead;
do not mourn for him.
Weep bitterly for the one who has gone away,
for he will never return again
and see his native land.#2Sm 12:22–23
11For this is what the Lord says concerning Shallum#2Kg 23:32–35; 1Ch 3:15 son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of his father Josiah, and who has left this place: “He will never return here again, 12but he will die in the place where they deported him, never seeing this land again.”
A Message concerning Jehoiakim
13Woe for the one who builds his palace
through unrighteousness,#Mc 3:10
his upstairs rooms through injustice,
who makes his neighbor serve without pay
and will not give him his wages,#Lv 19:13; Jms 5:4
14who says, “I will build myself a massive palace,
with spacious upstairs rooms.”
He will cut windows#22:14 Lit my windows in it,
and it will be paneled with cedar#1Kg 6:9,15,18; 7:3,7
and painted bright red.
15Are you a king because you excel in cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink
and administer justice and righteousness?#Jr 22:3
Then it went well with him.
16He took up the case of the poor and needy;#Dt 24:14
then it went well.
Is this not what it means to know me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
17But you have eyes and a heart for nothing
except your own dishonest profit,
shedding innocent blood
and committing extortion and oppression.#Is 30:12; 59:9–15; Jr 6:6; Ezk 22:7,12,29; Mc 3:11; Hab 1:3
18Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim#2Kg 23:34–24:6; 2Ch 36:4–8 son of Josiah, king of Judah:
They will not mourn for him, saying,
“Woe, my brother!” or “Woe, my sister!”
They will not mourn for him, saying,
“Woe, lord! Woe, his majesty!”
19He will be buried like a donkey,#Jr 36:30
dragged off and thrown
outside Jerusalem’s gates.
20Go up to Lebanon and cry out;
raise your voice in Bashan;
cry out from Abarim,#Nm 27:12; Dt 32:49
for all your lovers#22:20 Or friends, or allies, also in v. 22 have been crushed.#Jr 3:1
21I spoke to you when you were secure.
You said, “I will not listen.”
This has been your way since youth;#Jr 3:25
indeed, you have never listened to me.
22The wind will take charge of#22:22 Lit will shepherd all your shepherds,
and your lovers will go into captivity.
Then you will be ashamed and humiliated#Is 41:11
because of all your evil.
23You residents of Lebanon,
nestled among the cedars,
how you will groan#22:23 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads will be pitied when pains come on you,
agony like a woman in labor.#Ps 48:6; Is 13:8; 21:3; 42:14; Jr 4:31; 6:24; 13:21; 30:6; 50:43; Mc 4:9–10; 1Th 5:3
A Message concerning Coniah
24“As I live” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “though you, Coniah#22:24 = Jehoiachin#2Kg 24:6–17; Jr 37:1; 52:31 son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring#Gn 38:18; 1Kg 21:8; Hg 2:23 on my right hand, I would tear you from it. 25In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread,#Jr 34:20–21 who intend to take your life, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Chaldeans. 26I will hurl you and the mother who gave birth#2Kg 24:15 to you into another land,#2Kg 24:8 where neither of you were born, and there you will both die. 27They will never return to the land they long to return to.”
28Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot,#Ps 31:12; Jr 48:38; Hs 8:8
a jar no one wants?
Why are he and his descendants hurled out
and cast into a land they have not known?
29Earth, earth, earth,
hear the word of the Lord!
30This is what the Lord says:
Record this man as childless,#1Ch 3:17; Mt 1:12
a man who will not be successful in his lifetime.
None of his descendants will succeed
in sitting on the throne of David#Jr 36:30
or ruling again in Judah.
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Jeremias (Jeremiah) 22
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1Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Juda, and there thou shalt speak this word,
2And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy servants and thy people, who enter in by these gates.
3Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgement and justice: and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.
4For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings of the race of David, sitting upon his throne and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people.
5But if you will not hearken to these words, I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
6For thus saith the Lord to the house of the king of Juda: Thou art to me Galaad, the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness and cities not habitable.
7And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons: and they shall cut down thy chosen cedars and shall cast them headlong into the fire.
8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city?
9And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have adored strange gods and served them.
10Weep not for him that is dead nor bemoan him with your tears: lament him that goeth away, for he shall return no more nor see his native country.
11For thus saith the Lord to Sellum the son of Josias, the king of Juda, who reigned instead of his father, who went forth out of this place: He shall return hither no more.
12But in the place to which I have removed him, there shall he die: and he shall not see this land any more.
13Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgement: that will oppress his friend without cause and will not pay him his wages.
14Who saith: I will build me a wide house and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows and maketh roofs of cedar and painteth them with vermilion.
15Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him?
16He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good. Was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?
17But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness and upon shedding innocent blood and upon oppression and running after evil works.
18Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas, my brother, and Alas, sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my Lord, or, Alas, the noble one.
19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.
20Go up to Libanus and cry: and lift up thy voice in Basan and cry to them that pass by, for all thy lovers are destroyed.
21I spoke to thee in thy properity: and thou saidst: I will not hear. This hath been thy way from thy youth, because thou hast not heard my voice.
22The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: and then shalt thou be confounded and ashamed of all thy wickedness.
23Thou that sittest in Libanus and makest thy nest in the cedars, how hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a woman in labour?
24As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim, the king of Juda, were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.
25And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a strange country, in which you were not born: and there you shall die.
27And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither.
28Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? Is he a vessel wherein there is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.
30Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David and have power any more in Juda.
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