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Jeremiah 22:1 (show verse)
Thus, said Yahweh, Go thou down to the house of king of Judah, and speak thou there this word,
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Jeremiah 22:2 (show verse)
and say - Hear thou the word of Yahweh O king of Judah who sittest upon the throne of David, - thou, and thy servants and thy people who enter in at these gates,
Jeremiah 22:3 (show verse)
Thus, saith Yahweh, - Execute ye justice, and righteousness, And deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, - But the sojourner the fatherless, and the widow, do not oppress neither commit violence, And the blood of the innocent, do not ye shed, in this place.
Aliens » To be treated with justice
Fatherless » Admonitions in regard to
Fatherless » Do no violence to
Orphans » Admonitions in regard to
The poor » Do justice to
Social duties » Compassion » Duty to widow and fatherless
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Injustice to
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Oppression of
Widow and fatherless » Kindness to encouraged
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Fatherless » Admonitions in regard to
Fatherless » Do no violence to
Orphans » Admonitions in regard to
The poor » Do justice to
Social duties » Compassion » Duty to widow and fatherless
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Injustice to
Strangers » Mosaic law relating to » Oppression of
Widow and fatherless » Kindness to encouraged
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Jeremiah 22:4 (show verse)
For if ye, indeed do, this thing, then shall there enter into the gates of this house - kings, sitting for David upon his throne riding in chariots and on horses, he and his servants, and his people.
Jeremiah 22:5 (show verse)
But if ye will not hear these words, By myself have I sworn Declareth Yahweh - That, a ruin, shall this house become.
Jeremiah 22:6 (show verse)
For Thus, saith Yahweh Concerning the house of the king of Judah, - Though thou wast Gilead, to me, The summit of Lebanon, Yet surely I will make thee, A wilderness, Cities, not habitable;
Jeremiah 22:7 (show verse)
And I will hallow against thee Destroyers Every man with his weapons, - And they shall cut down of the choicest of thy cedars, and cast upon the fire.
Jeremiah 22:8 (show verse)
Then shall many nations pass by this city, - and shall say, every man to his neighbour, For what cause, hath Yahweh done thus, unto this great city?
Jeremiah 22:9 (show verse)
And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, their God, - And bowed down to other gods And served them.
Jeremiah 22:10 (show verse)
Do not ye lament for him that is dead Neither bemoan ye, him, But weep ye - weep on - for him that is going away, For he shall not return any more Nor see the land of his birth.
Jeremiah 22:11 (show verse)
For Thus, saith Yahweh - Touching Shallum, son of Josiah king of Judah, That reigneth instead of Josiah his father, Who hath gone forth out of this place, He shall not return thither any more;
Jeremiah 22:12 (show verse)
For in the place whither they have taken him captive, There, shall he die, - And this land, shall he see no more.
Jeremiah 22:13 (show verse)
Alas! for him who buildeth his house without righteousness, And his roof-chambers without justice, - Of his neighbour, taketh service for nought, And recompense for his work, giveth him not.
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Business life » Employers » Exacting service with wages
Dishonesty » Condemned
Jehoiakim » Wicked reign and final overthrow of
Masters' » Unjust, denounced
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The luxurious king
Presumptuous plans » Examples of » The luxurious king
Unrighteousness » The unrighteous
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Wages » Sins of employers respecting payment of wages » Exacting service with wages
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Business life » Employers » Exacting service with wages
Dishonesty » Condemned
Jehoiakim » Wicked reign and final overthrow of
Masters' » Unjust, denounced
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The luxurious king
Presumptuous plans » Examples of » The luxurious king
Unrighteousness » The unrighteous
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Wages » Sins of employers respecting payment of wages » Exacting service with wages
Jeremiah 22:14 (show verse)
Who saith - I will build me a roomy house, with spacious roof-chambers, - So he cutteth him open its windows, And it is covered in with cedar, And he painteth it with vermilion.
Jeremiah 22:15 (show verse)
Shalt thou reign, because, thou, art eager to excel in cedar? Thy father, did lie not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness, And, then, it was well with him?
Jeremiah 22:16 (show verse)
Did he not plead the cause of the oppressed and the needy, And, then, it was well? Was not, that, to know, me? Demandeth Yahweh.
Jeremiah 22:17 (show verse)
Verily thou hast neither eyes nor heart, save for thy plundering and for thy shedding of innocent blood, and for oppression and for crushing to do them!
Jeremiah 22:18 (show verse)
Therefore - Thus, saith Yahweh, Touching Jehoiakim son of Josiah King of Judah, They shall not cry in lament for him Alas my brother! or Alas sister! They shall not cry in lament for him Alas lord! or Alas! his renown!
Jeremiah 22:19 (show verse)
With the burial of an ass, shall he be buried, Dragged along and cast forth, beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 22:20 (show verse)
Ascend the Lebanon and make outcry, And in Bashan, put forth thy voice, - And make outcry from Abarim, For all thy lovers are torn in pieces.
Jeremiah 22:21 (show verse)
I spake unto thee, in thy carelessness, - Thou saidst I will not hearken! This hath been thy way from thy youth, That thou hast not hearkened to my voice.
Jeremiah 22:22 (show verse)
All thy shepherds, the wind shall feed, And, thy lovers into captivity, shall depart, - Surely, then shalt thou turn pale and be confounded, by reason of all thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 22:23 (show verse)
O inhabitress of Lebanon that makest thy nest in the cedars, - How hast thou bemoaned thyself Now that pangs have overtaken thee, Anguish, as of her that giveth birth.
Jeremiah 22:24 (show verse)
As I live, Declareth Yahweh, - Even though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet-ring upon my right hand, yet, from thence, would I pull thee off;
Jeremiah 22:25 (show verse)
and I would give thee into the hand of them who seek thy life and into the hand of them from the face of whom, thou dost shrink in fear, - even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans;
Jeremiah 22:26 (show verse)
and I will hurl thee out and thy mother who bare thee, upon another land where ye were not born, - and, there, shall ye die.
Jeremiah 22:27 (show verse)
But unto the land whither they shall be lifting up their souls to return, thither, shall they not return.
Jeremiah 22:28 (show verse)
An earthen vessel to be despised thrown about, is this man Coniah? Or an instrument, in which is no pleasure? Wherefore are they to be cast out, he and his seed, and to be thrown forth upon a land which they have not known?
Jeremiah 22:29 (show verse)
O land, land, land! Hear thou the word of Yahweh!
Jeremiah 22:30 (show verse)
Thus, saith Yahweh, - Register ye this man, childless, A man who shall not prosper in his days, - For there shall prosper of his seed No man sitting upon the throne of David, Or ruling any more over Judah.