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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 YLT</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">YLT</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">Young's Literal Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">A Warning for Judah's Kings</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thus said Jehovah, ‘Go down [to] the house of the king of Judah, and thou hast spoken there this word, and hast said, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Hear a word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, who art sitting on the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people, who are coming in at these gates, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For, if ye certainly do this thing, Then come in by the gates of this house Have kings sitting for David on his throne, Riding on chariot, and on horses, He, and his servants, and his people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And if ye do not hear these words, By myself I have sworn — an affirmation of Jehovah, That this house is for a desolation.</p> <p class="hdg">A Warning about the Palace</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For thus said Jehovah, Concerning the house of the king of Judah: Gilead [art] thou to Me — head of Lebanon, If not — I make thee a wilderness, Cities not inhabited.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I have separated for thee destroyers, Each with his weapons, And they have cut down the choice of thy cedars, And have cast them on the fire.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And many nations have passed by this city, And they have said, each to his neighbour, For what hath Jehovah done thus to this great city? <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they have said, ‘Because that they have forsaken The covenant of Jehovah their God, And bow themselves to other gods, and serve them.’</p> <p class="hdg">A Warning about Jehoahaz</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his birth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For thus said Jehovah concerning Shallum son of Josiah king of Judah, who is reigning instead of Josiah his father, who hath gone forth from this place: He doth not turn back hither again; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For in the place whither they have removed him he dieth, And this land he doth not see again.</p> <p class="hdg">A Warning about Jehoiakim</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Wo to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Who is saying, ‘I build for myself a large house, And airy upper chambers,’ And he hath cut out for himself its windows, Ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermillion.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father — did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then [it is] well with him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then [it is] well — is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: They do not lament for him, Ah, my brother, and Ah, sister, They do not lament for him, Ah, lord, and Ah, his honour.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The burial of an ass — he is buried, Dragged and cast out thence to the gates of Jerusalem.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Go up to Lebanon, and cry, And in Bashan give forth thy voice, And cry from Abarim, For destroyed have been all loving thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I have spoken unto thee in thine ease, Thou hast said, ‘I do not hearken,’ This [is] thy way from thy youth, For thou hast not hearkened to My voice.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>All thy friends consume doth wind, And thy lovers into captivity do go, Surely then thou art ashamed, And hast blushed for all thy wickedness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>O dweller in Lebanon, making a nest among cedars, How gracious hast thou been when pangs come to thee, Pain — as of a travailing woman.</p> <p class="hdg">A Warning for Jehoiachin</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I live — an affirmation of Jehovah, Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah Were a seal on My right hand, Surely thence I draw thee away, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And I have given thee into the hand of those seeking thy life, And into hands of which thou art afraid, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And I have cast thee, And thy mother who bore thee, unto another country, Where ye were not born, and there do ye die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And to the land whither they are lifting up their soul to return, Thither they do not return.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>A grief — a despised broken thing — is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Earth, earth, earth, hear a word of Jehovah,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Thus said Jehovah: Write ye this man childless, A man — he doth not prosper in his days, For none of his seed doth prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling again in Judah!</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/jeremiah/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>