KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 22
He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats. The judgment of Shallum, of Jehoiakim, and of Coniah.
1So says Jehovah, Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak this Word there,
2and say, Hear the Word of Jehovah, O king of Judah who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.
3So says Jehovah, Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one plundered from the hand of the oppressing one. And do not oppress the alien, the widow, or the orphan, and do not do violence and not shed innocent blood in this place.
4For if you indeed do this thing, then there shall enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he and his servants and his people.
5But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself, a statement of Jehovah, that this house shall become a ruin.
6For so says Jehovah concerning the king of Judah's house, You are Gilead to Me, the head of Lebanon; if not I will make you a wilderness, cities not lived in.
7And I will set apart the destroyers against you, each man with his weapons; and they will cut down the best of your cedars and make them fall into the fire.
8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall each man say to his companion, Why has Jehovah done this to this great city?
9Then they will answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God and bowed to other gods and served them.
10Weep not for the ones who died and do not lament for him; weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more, nor see the land of his birth.
11For so says Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned in his father Josiah's place, who went forth from this place: he shall not return there any more.
12But he shall die there in the place where they have exiled him, and he will see this land no more.
13Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, his neighbor serves for nothing, and he does not give him for his work;
14who says, I will build myself a wide house and large upper rooms. And he cuts out windows for it and covers with cedar, and paints with vermilion!
15Do you reign because you lust to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well for him.
16He judged the cause of the poor and needy one, then it was well. Was this not to know Me, a statement of Jehovah?
17But your eyes and your heart lust for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and injury, and to do oppression.
18So Jehovah says this concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, They shall not mourn for him, saying, Ah, my brother! Or, Ah, sister! They shall not mourn for him, saying, Ah, lord! Or, Ah, his glory!
19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn beyond the gates of Jerusalem and thrown out.
20Go up to Lebanon and cry. And lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry out from Abarim; for all those loving you are broken.
21I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed My voice.
22Those feeding you shall feed the wind, and those loving you shall go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and will blush for all your evil.
23One dwelling in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, How gracious will you be when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth!
24As I live, says Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet I would tear you away!
25And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those of whom you are fearful before them, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26And I will cast you and your mother who bore you into another country, there where you were not born; and there you shall die.
27But concerning the land which they lift up with their soul, to return there, they shall not return there.
28Is this man Coniah a despised shattered jar, or a vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they do not know?
29O earth, earth, earth! Hear the Word of Jehovah!
30So says Jehovah, Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days, for not one from his seed will prosper, a man sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.
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