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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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"><title>Jeremiah 22 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../topmenuchap/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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The Lord Will Punish the King of Judah</h3>1-3The Lord sent me to the palace of the king of Judah to speak to the king, his officials, and everyone else who was there. The Lord told me to say:I am the Lord, so pay attention! You have been allowing people to cheat, rob, and take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners who live here. Innocent people have become victims of injustice, and some of them have even been killed. But now I command you to do what is right and see that justice is done. Rescue everyone who has suffered from injustice.4If you obey me, the kings from David's family will continue to rule Judah from this palace. They and their officials will ride in and out on their horses or in their chariots. 5<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> But if you ignore me, I promise in my own name that this palace will lie in ruins. 6Listen to what I think about it:The palace of Judah's kingis as glorious as Gileador Lebanon's highest peaks.But it will be as emptyas a ghost-townwhen I'm through with it.7I'll send troops to tear it apart,and its beautiful cedar beamswill be used for firewood.8People from different nations will pass by and ask, “Why did the Lord do this to such a great city as Jerusalem?” 9Others will answer, “It's because the people worshiped foreign gods and broke the agreement that the Lord their God had made with them.”<h3 class="s1">King Jehoahaz</h3><h5 class="sp">The Lord said:</h5>10King Josiah is dead,so don't mourn for him.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> Instead, mourn for his sonKing Jehoahaz,dragged off to another country,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> never to return.11-12<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.11-Jer.22.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> Jehoahaz<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.11-Jer.22.12!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> became king of Judah after his father King Josiah died. But Jehoahaz was taken as a prisoner to a foreign country. Now I, the Lord, promise that he will die there without ever seeing his own land again.<h3 class="s1">King Jehoiakim</h3><h5 class="sp">The Lord told me to say:</h5>* 13King Jehoiakim,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> you are doomed!You built a palacewith large rooms upstairs.14You put in big windowsand used cedar panelingand red paint.But you were unfairand forced the builders to workwithout pay.* 15More cedar in your palacedoesn't make you a better kingthan your father Josiah.He always did right—he gave justice to the poorand was honest.16That's what it meansto truly know me.So he lived a comfortable lifeand always had enoughto eat and drink.17But all you think aboutis how to cheator abuse or murdersome innocent victim.18<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> Jehoiakim, no one will mournat your funeral.They won't turn to each otherand ask,“Why did our great kinghave to die?”19You will be given a burialfit for a donkey;your body will be draggedoutside the city gatesand tossed in the dirt.I, the Lord, have spoken.<h3 class="s1">King Jehoiachin and the People of Jerusalem</h3><h5 class="sp">The Lord told me to say:</h5>20People of Jerusalem,the nations<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> you trustedhave been crushed.Go to Lebanon and weep;cry in the land of Bashanand in Moab.21When times were good,I warned you.But you ignored me,just as you have donesince Israel was young.22Now you will be disgracedbecause of your sins.Your leaders will be swept awayby the wind,and the nations you trustedwill be captured and draggedto a foreign country.23Those who live in the palacepaneled with cedar<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.23!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> will groan with painlike women giving birth.24<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> King Jehoiachin,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.24!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> son of Jehoiakim,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.24!f.3" class="notelink f-link">+</a> even if you were the ring I wear as the sign of my royal power, I would still pull you from my finger. 25I would hand you over to the enemy you fear, to King Nebuchadnezzar<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> and his army, who want to kill you. 26You and your mother<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.22.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> were born in Judah, but I will throw both of you into a foreign country, where you will die, 27longing to return home.28Jehoiachin, you are unwantedlike a broken clay pot.So you and your childrenwill be thrown into a countryyou know nothing about.29Land of Judah, I am the Lord.Now listen to what I say!30Erase the namesof Jehoiachin's childrenfrom the royal records.He is a complete failure,and so none of themwill ever be king.I, the Lord, have spoken.</div> </div> <a name="fn"></a> Footnotes: <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">King Josiah … him: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “don't mourn for the dead one,” meaning King Josiah, who ruled 640–609 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">his son King Jehoahaz … country: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “the one who was dragged off to another country,” meaning King Jehoahaz, who ruled for three months in 609 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.11,12 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jehoahaz: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Shallum,” another name for Jehoahaz.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jehoiakim: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.3.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">nations: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “gods.”</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.23 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">who live in the palace paneled with cedar: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “who live in Lebanon and who nest among the cedars,” which probably means Forest Hall in the royal palace at Jerusalem, which was paneled with cedar and had cedar columns and a cedar ceiling, all from Lebanon (see 1 Kings 7.2,3).</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jehoiachin: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Coniah,” another form of Jehoiachin's name; he ruled for three months in 598 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jehoiakim: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.3.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.25 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Nebuchadnezzar: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 21.2.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">mother: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 13.18.</char></note></div></div> <div align="center">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®) © 2006 American Bible Society. 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