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Jeremiah 22
- Jeremiah 22:1KJV.24.022.001
Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:2KJV.24.022.002
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:
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:3KJV.24.022.003
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:4KJV.24.022.004
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:5KJV.24.022.005
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:6KJV.24.022.006
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:7KJV.24.022.007
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:8KJV.24.022.008
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?
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:9KJV.24.022.009
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:10KJV.24.022.010
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:11KJV.24.022.011
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:
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:12KJV.24.022.012
But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:13KJV.24.022.013
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;
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:14KJV.24.022.014
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:15KJV.24.022.015
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?
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:16KJV.24.022.016
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:17KJV.24.022.017
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:18KJV.24.022.018
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!
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:19KJV.24.022.019
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:21KJV.24.022.021
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:22KJV.24.022.022
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:23KJV.24.022.023
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!
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:24KJV.24.022.024
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;
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:25KJV.24.022.025
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:26KJV.24.022.026
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.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:27KJV.24.022.027
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:28KJV.24.022.028
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?
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:29KJV.24.022.029
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
Research this verse → - Jeremiah 22:30KJV.24.022.030
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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