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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Thus says the LORD: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: “‘You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, “Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Weep not for him who is dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14who says, ‘I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,’ who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Therefore thus says the LORD 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 majesty!’ |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried, dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your evil. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!” |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24“As I live, declares the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.” |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know? |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD! |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Thus says the LORD: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.” |
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