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Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then they shall answer, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Do not weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For thus says the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: "He shall not return there any more. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>who says, "I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms," and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me?' says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>"But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "they shall not lament for him, saying, 'Alas my brother. or, Alas sister.' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Alas lord.' or, 'Alas his majesty.'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, 'I will not hear.' This has been your way from your youth, that you did not obey my voice.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly you will groan when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>As I live," says the LORD, "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which none delights? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land that they do not know?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD, "Write this man down childless, a man who will not succeed in his days; for none of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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