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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Jeremiah 22 New American Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/jeremiah/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</a> > Jeremiah 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/21.htm" title="Jeremiah 21">◄</a> Jeremiah 22 <a href="../jeremiah/23.htm" title="Jeremiah 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch30022" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn30022" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span id="v30022001" class="ver">1</span>Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and there deliver this word: <span id="v30022002" class="ver">2</span>You shall say: Listen to the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, king of Judah, who sit on the throne of David, you, your ministers, and your people who enter by these gates!<a id="ren30022002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022002-a">a</a> <span id="v30022003" class="ver">3</span>Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.<a id="ren30022003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022003-b">b</a> <span id="v30022004" class="ver">4</span>If you carry out these commands, kings who succeed to the throne of David will continue to enter the gates of this house, riding in chariots or mounted on horses, with their ministers, and their people. <span id="v30022005" class="ver">5</span>But if you do not obey these commands, I swear by myself—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: this house shall become rubble. <span id="v30022006" class="ver">6</span>For thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> concerning the house of the king of Judah:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">Though you be to me like Gilead,</p> <p class="sl1">like the peak of Lebanon,</p> <p class="sl">I swear I shall turn you into a waste,</p> <p class="sl1">with cities uninhabited.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022007" class="ver">7</span>Against you I will send destroyers,</p> <p class="sl1">each with their tools:</p> <p class="sl">They shall cut down your choice cedars,</p> <p class="sl1l">and cast them into the fire.<a id="ren30022007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022007-c">c</a></p> </div> <p><span id="v30022008" class="ver">8</span>Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another: “Why has the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> done this to so great a city?”<a id="ren30022008-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022008-d">d</a> <span id="v30022009" class="ver">9</span>And they will be told: “Because they have deserted their covenant with the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, their God, by worshiping and serving other gods.”<a id="ren30022009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022009-e">e</a></p> <section> <h2 class="ah">Jehoahaz</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v30022010" class="ver">10</span>Do not weep for him who is dead,<a id="rfn30022010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022010-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">nor mourn for him!</p> <p class="sl">Weep rather for him who is going away;</p> <p class="sl1">never again to see</p> <p class="sl1l">the land of his birth.<a id="ren30022010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022010-f">f</a></p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v30022011" class="ver">11</span>Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> concerning Shallum,<a id="rfn30022011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022011-1">*</a> son of Josiah, king of Judah, his father’s successor, who left this place: He shall never return, <span id="v30022012" class="ver">12</span>but in the place where they exiled him, there he shall die; he shall never see this land again.</p> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">Jehoiakim</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v30022013" class="ver">13</span>Woe to him who builds his house on wrongdoing,</p> <p class="sl1">his roof-chambers on injustice;</p> <p class="sl">Who works his neighbors without pay,<a id="rfn30022013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022013-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and gives them no wages.<a id="ren30022013-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022013-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022014" class="ver">14</span>Who says, “I will build myself a spacious house,</p> <p class="sl1">with airy rooms,”</p> <p class="sl">Who cuts out windows for it,</p> <p class="sl1">panels it with cedar,</p> <p class="sl1">and paints it with vermilion.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022015" class="ver">15</span>Must you prove your rank among kings<a id="rfn30022015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022015-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">by competing with them in cedar?</p> <p class="sl">Did not your father eat and drink,</p> <p class="sl1">And act justly and righteously?</p> <p class="sl1">Then he prospered.<a id="ren30022015-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022015-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022016" class="ver">16</span>Because he dispensed justice to the weak and the poor,</p> <p class="sl1">he prospered.</p> <p class="sl">Is this not to know me?—</p> <p class="sl1">oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren30022016-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022016-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022017" class="ver">17</span>But your eyes and heart are set on nothing</p> <p class="sl1">except your own gain,</p> <p class="sl">On shedding innocent blood</p> <p class="sl1l">and practicing oppression and extortion.<a id="ren30022017-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022017-j">j</a></p> </div> <p><span id="v30022018" class="ver">18</span>Therefore, thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> concerning Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">They shall not lament him,</p> <p class="sl1">“Alas! my brother”; “Alas! sister.”<a id="rfn30022018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022018-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">They shall not lament him,</p> <p class="sl1">“Alas, Lord! alas, Majesty!”<a id="ren30022018-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022018-k">k</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022019" class="ver">19</span>The burial of a donkey<a id="rfn30022019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022019-1">*</a> he shall be given,</p> <p class="sl1">dragged forth and cast out</p> <p class="sl1">beyond the gates of Jerusalem.<a id="ren30022019-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022019-l">l</a></p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">Jeconiah</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v30022020" class="ver">20</span>Climb Lebanon and cry out,<a id="rfn30022020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022020-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">in Bashan lift up your voice;</p> <p class="sl">Cry out from Abarim,</p> <p class="sl1">for all your lovers are crushed.<a id="ren30022020-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022020-m">m</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022021" class="ver">21</span>I spoke to you when you were secure,</p> <p class="sl1">but you answered, “I will not listen.”</p> <p class="sl">This has been your way from your youth,</p> <p class="sl1">not to listen to my voice.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022022" class="ver">22</span>The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,</p> <p class="sl1">your lovers shall go into exile.</p> <p class="sl">Surely then you shall be ashamed and confounded</p> <p class="sl1">because of all your wickedness.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022023" class="ver">23</span>You who dwell on Lebanon,</p> <p class="sl1">who nest in the cedars,</p> <p class="sl">How you shall groan when pains come upon you,</p> <p class="sl1l">like the pangs of a woman in childbirth!</p> </div> <p><span id="v30022024" class="ver">24</span>As I live—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—even if you, Coniah,<a id="rfn30022024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022024-1">*</a> son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet ring<a id="ren30022024-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022024-n">n</a> on my right hand, I would snatch you off. <span id="v30022025" class="ver">25</span>I will hand you over to those who seek your life, to those you dread: Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans.<a id="ren30022025-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022025-o">o</a> <span id="v30022026" class="ver">26</span>I will cast you out, you and the mother who bore you,<a id="rfn30022026-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022026-1">*</a> into a land different from the land of your birth; and there you will die;<a id="ren30022026-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022026-p">p</a> <span id="v30022027" class="ver">27</span>Neither shall return to the land for which they yearn.<a id="ren30022027-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022027-q">q</a></p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v30022028" class="ver">28</span>Is this man Coniah a thing despised, to be broken,</p> <p class="sl1">a vessel that no one wants?</p> <p class="sl">Why are he and his offspring cast out?</p> <p class="sl1">why thrown into a land they do not know?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v30022029" class="ver">29</span>O land, land, land,</p> <p class="sl1">hear the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v30022030" class="ver">30</span>Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>:</p> <p class="sl"><a id="ren30022030-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en30022030-r">r</a> Write this man down as childless,<a id="rfn30022030-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn30022030-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">a man who will never prosper in his life!</p> <p class="sl">Nor shall any of his descendants prosper,</p> <p class="sl1">to sit upon the throne of David,</p> <p class="sl1">to rule again over Judah.</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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