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Jeremiah 22:17
17“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”
Jeremiah 22:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)“But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innocent blood, And practicing oppression and violence.”
Context of Jeremiah 22:17
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. “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.
Read all of Jeremiah 22Jeremiah 22:17 word by word
כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ וְלִבְּךָ֔ כִּ֖י אִם־עַל־בִּצְעֶ֑ךָ וְעַ֤ל דַּֽם־הַנָּקִי֙ לִשְׁפּ֔וֹךְ וְעַל־הָעֹ֥שֶׁק וְעַל־הַמְּרוּצָ֖ה לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- But thine eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
- and thine heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
- not but for thy covetousnessבֶּ֫צַעbetsa‛ · unjust-gainH1215
- and for to shedשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: killH8210
- innocentנָקִיnâqîy nâqîy' · innocentH5355
- bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
- and for oppressionעֹ֫שֶׁק‛ôsheq · oppressionH6233
- and for violenceמְרוּצָהmerûtsâh · oppressionH4835
- to doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
Cross-references for Jeremiah 22:17
- Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Shinar mantle and 200 shekels of silver and a wedge of gold 50 shekels in weight, I coveted them and took them. Look, they are buried in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
- Job 31:7If my step has strayed from the way, if my heart has walked after my eyes, or if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
- Psalms 119:36Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to dishonest gain.
- Ezekiel 19:6He prowled among the lions. He became a young lion, learned to catch prey, devoured men.
- Ezekiel 33:31So they come to you, as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words—but they do not do them—for with their mouth they express doting love, but their heart goes after their own dishonest gain.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil intentions, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
- James 1:14But each one is tempted when he is dragged away and enticed by his own desire.
- 2 Peter 2:14They have eyes full of adultery that never stop sinning, enticing unstable souls. They have hearts trained in greed—a cursed brood!
- 1 John 2:15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- Exodus 18:21But you should seek out capable men out of all the people—men who fear God, men of truth, who hate bribery. Appoint them to be rulers over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
- Psalms 10:3For the wicked one boasts about his soul’s desire. The greedy one curses, reviling Adonai.
- Luke 12:15Then He said to them, “Watch out! Be on guard against all kinds of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the material goods he possesses.”
- Luke 16:13No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick by one and look down on the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
- Romans 1:29They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips,
- 1 Corinthians 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Ruach ha-Kodesh who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
- Ephesians 5:3But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed—don’t even let these be mentioned among you, as is proper for kedoshim.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 22:17
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Covetousness - literally, gain. Besides exacting forced labor Jehoiakim, to procure the necessary means for the vast expenses he incurred, put innocent people to death on various pretexts, and escheated their property.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-19Verses 10-19 Here is a sentence of death upon two kings, the wicked sons of a very pious father. Josiah was prevented from seeing the evil to come in this world, and removed to see the good to come in the other world; therefore, weep not for him, but for his son Shallum, who is likely to live and die a wretched captive. Dying saints may be justly envied, while living sinners are justly pitied. Here also is the doom of Jehoiakim. No doubt it is lawful for…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17Jehoiakim, unlike his father Josiah, was greedy and dishonest. He ignored the covenant's requirements.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. thine--as opposed to thy father, Josiah.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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