15. Are you a king because you excel in cedar?Didn’t your father eat and drinkand administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.
16. He took up the case of the poor and needy,then it went well.Is this not what it means to know Me?This is the Lord’s declaration.
17. But you have eyes and a heart for nothingexcept your own dishonest profit,shedding innocent bloodand committing extortion and oppression.
18. Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:They will not mourn for him, saying,“Woe, my brother! ” or “Woe, my sister! ”They will not mourn for him, saying,“Woe, lord! Woe, his majesty! ”
19. He will be buried like a donkey, dragged off and thrownoutside the gates of Jerusalem.
20. Go up to Lebanon and cry out;raise your voice in Bashan;cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.