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Jeremiah 22:14-22 World English Bible (WEB)

14. who says, ‘I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

15. “Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

17. But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

18. Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They shall not lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’

19. He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

20. “Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.

21. I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

22. The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

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