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Jeremiah 22

About Jeremiah Jeremiah calls Judah to turn back before Babylon's conquest and promises a new covenant afterward.

Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,SelectedJeremiah 22:1Ask

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:SelectedJeremiah 22:2Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:3Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:4Ask

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.SelectedJeremiah 22:5Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:6Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:7Ask

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?SelectedJeremiah 22:8Ask

Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.SelectedJeremiah 22:9Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:10Ask

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:SelectedJeremiah 22:11Ask

But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.SelectedJeremiah 22:12Ask

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;SelectedJeremiah 22:13Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:14Ask

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?SelectedJeremiah 22:15Ask

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.SelectedJeremiah 22:16Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:17Ask

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!SelectedJeremiah 22:18Ask

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.SelectedJeremiah 22:19Ask

Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.SelectedJeremiah 22:20Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:21Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:22Ask

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!SelectedJeremiah 22:23Ask

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;SelectedJeremiah 22:24Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:25Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:26Ask

But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.SelectedJeremiah 22:27Ask

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?SelectedJeremiah 22:28Ask

O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.SelectedJeremiah 22:29Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 22:30Ask

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