Jeremiah 22:10-19

101Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him, But weep deeply for the one who goes away; For 2he will never return Or see his native land.

11For this is what the Lord says regarding 34Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in the place of his father Josiah, who went out from this place: “He will never return there; 12but in the place where they took him into exile, there he will 5die and he will not see this land again.

13“Woe to him who builds his house 6without righteousness, And his upstairs rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay And 7does not give him his wages,14Who says, ‘I will 8build myself a large house With spacious upstairs rooms, And cut out its windows, 9Paneling it with 10cedar and painting it 11bright red.’15Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did your father not eat and drink And 12do justice and righteousness? Then it was 13well for him.16He pled the cause of the 14afflicted and the poor, Then it was well. 15Is that not what it means to know Me?” Declares the Lord.17“But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own 16dishonest gain, And on 17shedding innocent blood, And on practicing oppression and extortion.”

18Therefore this is what the Lord says regarding 18Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They will not 19mourn for him: ‘20Oh, my brother!’ or, ‘Oh, sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Oh, for the master!’ or, ‘Oh, for his splendor!’19He will be 21buried with a donkey’s burial, Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.