Jeremiah 22
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Jeremiah 22:10-19

10Weep not for the dead or bemoan him. Weep bitterly for him who departs, for he will never return, or see his native country again.

11For thus says Adonai to Shallum, son of King Josiah of Judah, who became king in place of his father Josiah: “He who went forth from this place will never return there.

12Instead, in the place where they led him captive, there will he die—he will see this land no more.”

13Oy to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his roof-chambers by injustice, that makes his neighbor work without pay, never giving him his wages,

14who says: “I will build myself a big house with spacious rooms and cut out my windows for it, and panel it with cedar, and paint it with vermilion!

15Did you become king just to be striving with cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.

16He pled the case of the poor and weak, so it went well. Is not this knowledge of Me?” It is a declaration of Adonai.

17“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”

18Therefore thus says Adonai about Jehoiakim son of King Josiah of Judah: “They will not lament for him, ‘Oy , my brother!’ or ‘Oy , sister!’ They will not lament for him, ‘Oy , master!’ or ‘Oy , his majesty!’

19With a donkey’s burial will he be buried, dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

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