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13 Woe for the one who builds his palace through unrighteousness, his upstairs rooms through injustice, who makes his neighbor serve without pay and will not give him his wages, 14 who says, “I will build myself a massive palace, with spacious upstairs rooms.” He will cut windows in it, and it will be paneled with cedar and painted bright red. 15 Are you a king because you excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink and administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him. 16 He took up the case of the poor and needy; then it went well. Is this not what it means to know me? This is the LORD’s declaration. 17 But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression. Jeremiah 22:13-17, Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers.
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