Jeremiah 22
Prophecies against the
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Thus saith the LORD;
Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this
word,
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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:
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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.
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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.
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But if ye will not hear these words, I
swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this
house shall become a desolation.
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For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gil'e-ad unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely
I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are
not inhabited.
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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.
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And many nations shall pass by this city,
and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath the
LORD done thus unto this great city?
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Then they shall answer, Because they have
forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God,
and worshipped other gods, and served them.
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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.
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For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum 2 Kgs. 23.31-34 · 2 Chr.
36.1-4 the son of Josi'ah king of Judah, which reigned
instead of Josi'ah his father, which went forth out of this place;
He shall not return thither any more:
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but he shall die in the place whither
they have led him captive, and shall see this land no
more.
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Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his
neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his
work;
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that saith, I will build me a wide house
and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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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?
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He judged the cause of the poor and
needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know
me? saith the LORD.
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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.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoi'akim 2 Kgs.
23.36--24.6 · 2 Chr. 36.5-7 the son of Josi'ah 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!
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He shall be buried with the burial of an
ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
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Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up
thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers
are destroyed.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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As I live, saith the LORD, though Coni'ah 2 Kgs. 24.8-15 · 2 Chr. 36.9, 10 the son of Jehoi'akim king of Judah were the signet upon my
right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
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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 Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon,
and into the hand of the Chalde'ans.
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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.
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But to the land whereunto they desire to
return, thither shall they not return.
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Is this man Coni'ah 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?
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O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of
the LORD.
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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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