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Jeremiah 22

6 This is what the Eternal has to say about the court of the king of Judah:

‘Though you were a flourishing Gilead of growth for me,

a thick-sown crest of Lebanon,

I will reduce you to a desert,

like a town untenanted;

I will set men to destroy you,

armed men all of them,

to fell your choicest cedars

and fling them in the fire.’ ” * * *

Weep not for the dead Josiah,

wail not over him;

weep rather for the exile,

who never shall return,

never behold his native land again. 11 (For this is the Eternal’s sentence on Shallum, Josiah’s son, Josiah’s successor, who left this place for exile: “He never shall come back again; 12 he shall die in the land where they have carried him into exile; he shall never see this land again.”)

Woe to him who builds his palace on injustice,

his chambers upon fraud,

who forces other men to work for nothing,

holding back their wages,

who thinks to build himself a spacious palace,

with roomy chambers and with windows wide,

panelling it with cedar

and painting it vermilion!

Are you a king indeed,

because you vie with Ahab?

Did not your father enjoy himself?--

and he ruled justly, lawfully.

Did he not uphold the rights of weak and wretched men?

And is not that the true knowledge of me?

But you have neither eyes nor heart

for aught but selfish gain,

for shedding innocent blood,

for outrage and oppression. 18 This therefore is the Eternal’s sentence upon Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

“There shall be no lamenting for him--

as men lament a brother or a sister;

there shall be no lamenting for him--

as men lament ‘My lord!’ ‘His Majesty!’

As an ass is buried, shall he be buried,

haled along, hurled outside the city gates.” * * *

Climb to Lebanon and call out,

raise your voice in Bashan,

wail from the hills of Abârim,

for all your allies are ruined.

I spoke to you in your prosperity,

but you refused to listen;

so has it ever been, since you were young,

you never would listen to me. 22 Therefore your leaders shall be all swept away,

your allies shall be exiled,

and then your doom shall be disgrace and shame,

for all your evil doing.

You, with your seat on Lebanon,

nestling among the cedars,

how you will groan when your agony comes,

like a woman in pains of labour! * * * 24 As sure as I live, says the Eternal, even though Koniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would pull him off. 25 “Yes, Koniah, and I will hand you over to your murderers, to the men you dread, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and the Chaldeans. 26 You and your mother I will fling far into a foreign land, where you shall die, in a land where you were not born.” 27 They shall never get back to the land where their heart longs to return.

What is this creature Koniah?

What but a broken pot,

a vessel no one cares for;

he is flung aside,

tossed far into a foreign country.

O land, O land, O land,

listen to the word of the Eternal!--

“Set this man down as childless,

for never shall a son of his

attain to sit on David’s throne

or rule again in Judah.”