New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 22:14-18

14Who says, ‘I will 1build myself a large house With spacious upstairs rooms, And cut out its windows, 2Paneling it with 3cedar and painting it 4bright red.’15Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did your father not eat and drink And 5do justice and righteousness? Then it was 6well for him.16He pled the cause of the 7afflicted and the poor, Then it was well. 8Is that not what it means to know Me?” Declares the Lord.17“But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own 9dishonest gain, And on 10shedding innocent blood, And on practicing oppression and extortion.”

18Therefore this is what the Lord says regarding 11Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They will not 12mourn for him: ‘13Oh, my brother!’ or, ‘Oh, sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Oh, for the master!’ or, ‘Oh, for his splendor!’

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 22:14 Is 5:8 ↩
2. Jeremiah 22:14 Or Paneled ↩
3. Jeremiah 22:14 2 Sam 7:2; Hag 1:4 ↩
4. Jeremiah 22:14 Or vermilion ↩
5. Jeremiah 22:15 2 Kin 23:25; Jer 7:5; 21:12 ↩
6. Jeremiah 22:15 Ps 128:2; Is 3:10; Jer 42:6 ↩
7. Jeremiah 22:16 Ps 72:1-4, 12, 13 ↩
8. Jeremiah 22:16 1 Chr 28:9; Jer 9:24 ↩
9. Jeremiah 22:17 Jer 6:13; 8:10; Luke 12:15-20 ↩
10. Jeremiah 22:17 2 Kin 24:4; Jer 22:3 ↩
11. Jeremiah 22:18 2 Kin 23:36-24:6; 2 Chr 36:5 ↩
12. Jeremiah 22:18 Jer 22:10; 34:5 ↩
13. Jeremiah 22:18 1 Kin 13:30 ↩

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