Jeremiah Chapter 22

• Jeremiah 22:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 22:2
  The LORD said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there:
• Jeremiah 22:3
  ‘Hear the LORD’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne—you, your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.
• Jeremiah 22:4
  The LORD says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the ...
• Jeremiah 22:5
  For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses—they,...
• Jeremiah 22:6
  But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says the LORD, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”
• Jeremiah 22:7
  For the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, citi...
• Jeremiah 22:8
  I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
• Jeremiah 22:9
  “Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this great city?’
• Jeremiah 22:10
  Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’”
• Jeremiah 22:11
  Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.
• Jeremiah 22:12
  For the LORD says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won...
• Jeremiah 22:13
  But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.”
• Jeremiah 22:14
  “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him h...
• Jeremiah 22:15
  who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.
• Jeremiah 22:16
  “Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
• Jeremiah 22:17
  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 22:18
  But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• Jeremiah 22:19
  Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ T...
• Jeremiah 22:20
  He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
• Jeremiah 22:21
  “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out. Lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers have been destroyed.
• Jeremiah 22:22
  I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.
• Jeremiah 22:23
  The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
• Jeremiah 22:24
  Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in trava...
• Jeremiah 22:25
  “As I live,” says the LORD, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there.
• Jeremiah 22:26
  I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar kin...
• Jeremiah 22:27
  I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.
• Jeremiah 22:28
  But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return.”
• Jeremiah 22:29
  Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a lan...
• Jeremiah 22:30
  O earth, earth, earth, hear the LORD’s word!
• Jeremiah 22:31
  The LORD says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on Davi...