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Chapter 22  
     
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 Thus said 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 said the Lord; Execute you 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 you 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 you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, said the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
  
6.
 For thus said the Lord unto the king's house of Judah; You art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you 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 has 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 you not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
  
11.
 For thus said 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 there 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 gives him not for his work;
  
14.
 That said, 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 you reign, because you 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? said the Lord in dream.
  
17.
 But your eyes and your 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 said 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 spoke unto you in thy prosperity; but you saidst, I will not hear. This has been thy manner from thy youth, that you obeyedst not my voice.
  
22.
 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
  
23.
 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
  
24.
 As I live, said the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck you thence;
  
25.
 And I will give you into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face you fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.  
26.
 And I will cast you out, and thy mother that gave birth to thee, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die.
  
27.
 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, there shall they not return.
  
28.
 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel in which 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 said the Lord in dream, Write you 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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