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1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house
of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O
king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy
servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment
and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor:
and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the
widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then
shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the
throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and
his people.
5 But if ye will not hear these words, I
swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s
house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of
Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities
which are not inhabited.
7 And I will prepare destroyers against
thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars,
and cast them into the fire.
8 And many nations shall pass by this city,
and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done
thus unto this great city?
9 Then they shall answer, Because they have
forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and
served them.
10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan
him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no
more, nor see his native country.
11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum
the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father,
which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
12 But he shall die in the place whither
they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his
neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
14 That saith, I will build me a wide house
and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled
with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest
thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment
and justice, and then it was well with him?
16 He judged the cause of the poor and
needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me?
saith the LORD.
17 But thine eyes and thine heart are
not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do it.
18 Therefore thus saith 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 glory!
19 He shall be buried with the burial of an
ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up
thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are
destroyed.
21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity;
but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from
thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors,
and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed
and confounded for all thy wickedness.
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy
nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee,
the pain as of a woman in travail!
24 As I live, saith the LORD, though
Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right
hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
25 And I will give thee into the hand of
them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou
fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the
hand of the Chaldeans.
26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother
that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there
shall ye die.
27 But to the land whereunto they desire to
return, thither shall they not return.
28 Is this
man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is
no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into
a land which they know not?
29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of
the LORD.
30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man
childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of
his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any
more in Judah.
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