Jeremiah 22 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 This is what the LORD says: Go to the palace of the king of Judah, and speak this message there: Thus says the LORD: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there:
2 |Listen to the word of the LORD, you officials, you people who come into these gates, and you, king of Judah, the one sitting on David's throne. and 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. Hear the word of the LORD to you, king of Judah, you who sit on David’s throne—you, your officials and your people who come through these gates.
3 |This is what the LORD says: Judge fairly, and do what is right. Rescue those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Don't mistreat foreigners, orphans, or widows, and don't oppress them. Don't kill innocent people in this place. Thus 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. This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
4 If you do what I say, then the kings who sit on David's throne will ride through the gates of this palace in chariots and on horses along with their officials and their people. For 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. For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people.
5 But if you don't do what I say, I will take an oath on myself,| declares the LORD, |that this palace will become a pile of rubble. But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. But if you do not obey these commands, declares the LORD, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.’”
6 |This is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah: This palace is like Gilead to me, like the top of Lebanon. I will certainly turn it into a desert, into cities that no one lives in. For 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. For this is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah: “Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited.
7 I will send people to destroy you. They will have their own weapons. They will cut down your finest cedar trees and throw them on a fire. I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire. I will send destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut up your fine cedar beams and throw them into the fire.
8 |People from many nations will pass by this city and ask each other, 'Why has the LORD done this to this important city?' “‘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?” “People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
9 The answer will be: 'They rejected the promise of the LORD their God. They worshiped other gods and served them.' | And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’” And the answer will be: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
10 Don't cry for the dead. Don't shake your heads at them. Cry bitterly for those who are taken away, because they won't come back to see their homeland. Weep 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. Do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss; rather, weep bitterly for him who is exiled, because he will never return nor see his native land again.
11 This is what the LORD says about King Josiah's son Shallum, who succeeded his father as king of Judah and left this place: He will never come back here again. For 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, For this is what the LORD says about Shallum son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but has gone from this place: “He will never return.
12 He will die in the place where he was taken captive, and he will never see this land again. but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.” He will die in the place where they have led him captive; he will not see this land again.”
13 |How horrible it will be for the person who builds his house dishonestly and his upper rooms through injustice. He makes his neighbors work for nothing and doesn't pay them for their work. “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, “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor.
14 He says, 'I will build a large house for myself with big upper rooms.' He cuts out windows in it, panels the rooms with cedar, and paints them red. who 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. He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace with spacious upper rooms.’ So he makes large windows in it, panels it with cedar and decorates it in red.
15 Do you think you're a better king than others because you use more cedar? Your father ate and drank and did what is fair and right. Everything went well for him. Do 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. “Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him.
16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy. Everything went well for him. Isn't this what it means to know me?| asks the LORD. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD. He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?” declares the LORD.
17 |But your eyes and your mind are set on nothing but dishonest profits. You kill innocent people and violently oppress your people.| But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.” “But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”
18 This is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim, son of Judah's King Josiah: People won't mourn for him and say, |How horrible it is for my brother and sister!| They won't mourn for him and say, |How horrible it is for my master and his splendor!| Therefore 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!’ Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
19 He will receive a donkey's burial. He will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem. With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried, dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.” He will have the burial of a donkey— dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.”
20 |Go to Lebanon and cry! Raise your voice in Bashan! Cry out from Abarim, because all your lovers are defeated.| “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed. “Go up to Lebanon and cry out, let your voice be heard in Bashan, cry out from Abarim, for all your allies are crushed.
21 I spoke to you when you were prosperous, but you said that you wouldn't listen. This is how you've been ever since you were young. You don't listen to me. I 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. I warned you when you felt secure, but you said, ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your way from your youth; you have not obeyed me.
22 The wind will blow away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced by all your wickedness. The 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. The wind will drive all your shepherds away, and your allies will go into exile. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced because of all your wickedness.
23 You live in Lebanon and have your nest in the cedars. But you will groan when pain strikes you, pain like a woman giving birth to a child. O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!” You who live in ‘Lebanon,’ who are nestled in cedar buildings, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain like that of a woman in labor!
24 |As I live,| declares the LORD, |even though you, Jehoiakin, son of Judah's King Jehoiakim, are the signet ring on my right hand, I will pull you off my hand. “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 “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.
25 I will hand you over to those who want to kill you, those you fear-King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonians. and 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. I will deliver you into the hands of those who want to kill you, those you fear—Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Babylonians.
26 I will throw you and your mother into another land. You weren't born there, but you will die there. I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another country, where neither of you was born, and there you both will die.
27 You will want to return to this land, but you won't be allowed to come home.| But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.” You will never come back to the land you long to return to.”
28 This Jehoiakin is like a rejected and broken pot that no one wants. Is that why he and his descendants will be thrown out and cast into another land they've never heard of? Is 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? Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? Why will he and his children be hurled out, cast into a land they do not know?
29 O land, land, land! Listen to the word of the LORD. O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD! O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!
30 This is what the LORD says: Write this about Jehoiakin: He will be childless. He won't prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed him as king. They won't sit on David's throne and rule Judah again. Thus 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.” This is what the LORD says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.”
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