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          DASV: Jeremiah 22    

1 This is what the LORD says: "Go down to the house of the
king of Judah, and speak this word there,
2 say: Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on
the throne of David-- you, your servants, and your people
who enter by these gates.
3 This is what the LORD says:
      Execute justice and righteousness.
           Deliver those who are robbed from their oppressors.
      Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, fatherless, or the widow,
           or shed innocent blood in this place.
4 For if you do this then there will enter through the gates of
this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in
chariots and on horses,--he, his servants, and his people.
5 But if you refuse to obey these words, I swear by myself,
says the LORD, that this house will become a heap of rubble."

6 For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah:
      "You are like Gilead to me,
           and the heights of Lebanon;
      yet I swear I will make you a desert,
           whose towns are uninhabited.
7 I will prepare destroyers against you,
      everyone with his weapons;
      they will cut down your choice cedars,
      and throw them into the fire."

8 Many nations will pass by this city, and they will ask each other,
"Why has the LORD done this to this great city?"
9 Then they will reply, "Because they forsook the covenant of the
LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them."

10 Do not weep for the dead king,
     neither grieve for him;
      but weep bitterly for the one who goes away;
     for that one will never return,
           or ever see his native country again.

11 For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum [Jehoahaz] the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his
father, and who was exiled from this place: "He will never return
here.
12 But in the place where they have led him captive, there he
will die, and he will never see this land again."
13 "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
     and his upper rooms by injustice,
      who uses forced labor,
     and gives his workers no wages for their labor.
14 Who brags, 'I will build a large palace
          with spacious upper rooms.
      He cuts out windows and panels it with cedar,
          and paints it red.
15 Were you made king, because you have the most cedar?
     Did not your father have enough to eat and drink?
     Yet he did what was just and right.
      That is why it went well for him.
16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy,
          then it was well.
      Is not this what it is to know me? says the LORD.
17 But your eyes and your heart only think about dishonest gain,
          shedding innocent blood,
     imposing oppression and committing violence."

18 Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
     "They will not lament for him, saying,
           'Too bad for my brother!'
           or, 'Too bad for my sister!'
     They will not lament for him, saying,
           'Too bad for my lord!'
           or, 'Too bad for his majesty!'
19 He will be buried with the burial of a donkey,
     dragged off and dumped outside the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry;
      lift up your voice in Bashan,
           and cry from Abarim,
      for all your lovers are crushed.
21 I warned you in your prosperity,
          but you said, 'I will not listen.'
      This has been your response from your youth,
          for you have not obeyed my voice.
22 The wind will feed all your shepherds,
          and your lovers will go into exile.
      Surely then you will be ashamed
          and humiliated from all your wickedness.
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon,
     who makes your nest in the cedars,
      how greatly you will groan
     when the pains of punishment come on you,
      pain like a woman in labor!"
24 "As I live," swears the LORD, "even if Jehoiachin the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet ring on my right hand,
I would pull you off from there.
25 I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life,
and into the hand of those you are afraid of, even into the hand
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
26 I will throw you and your mother who bore you out into another
country, where you were not born and there you will die.
27 But you will never return to the land which you long for."

28 Is this man Jehoiachin a despised broken pot?
     Is he a pot no one wants?
      Why are he and his descendants thrown out,
      cast into the land that they do not know?
29 O land, land, land,
      hear the word of the LORD:
30 This is what the LORD says:
     "Record this man childless,
           a man who will not be successful in his lifetime;
           for none of his descendants will succeed
           in sitting on the throne of David,
                or rule over Judah."

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