Jeremiah 22:1: Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word,
Jeremiah 22:2: 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.
Jeremiah 22:3: 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.
Jeremiah 22:4: 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.
Jeremiah 22:5: But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Jeremiah 22:6: 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.
Jeremiah 22:7: I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.
Jeremiah 22:8: "'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?"
Jeremiah 22:9: And they will answer, "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them."'"
Jeremiah 22:10: 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.
Jeremiah 22:11: 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,
Jeremiah 22:12: but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again."
Jeremiah 22:13: "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,
Jeremiah 22:2: 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.
Jeremiah 22:3: 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.
Jeremiah 22:4: 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.
Jeremiah 22:5: But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Jeremiah 22:6: 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.
Jeremiah 22:7: I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.
Jeremiah 22:8: "'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?"
Jeremiah 22:9: And they will answer, "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them."'"
Jeremiah 22:10: 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.
Jeremiah 22:11: 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,
Jeremiah 22:12: but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again."
Jeremiah 22:13: "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,
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