Jeremiah 22

1Yahweh said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there:Cross-references: 1Sam 15:16 · 2Sam 12:1 · 2Sam 24:11 · 1Ki 21:18 · 2Chr 19:2 · 2Chr 25:15 · +7 more

2‘Hear Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne—you, your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:19 · Isa 1:10 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 28:14 · Jer 7:2 · Jer 13:18 · +10 more

3Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.Cross-references: Ex 22:22 · Ex 23:6 · Lev 19:15 · Deut 10:18 · Deut 16:18 · Deut 19:10 · +29 more

4For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses—they, their servants, and their people.Cross-references: Jer 17:25

5But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”Cross-references: Gen 22:16 · Num 14:28 · Deut 32:40 · 2Chr 7:19 · 2Chr 7:22 · Ps 95:11 · +11 more

6For Yahweh says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.Cross-references: Gen 37:25 · Deut 3:25 · Ps 107:34 · Song 5:15 · Isa 6:11 · Isa 24:1 · +13 more

7I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.Cross-references: Isa 10:3 · Isa 10:33 · Isa 13:3 · Isa 27:10 · Isa 37:24 · Isa 54:16 · +7 more

8“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’Cross-references: Deut 29:23 · 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 7:20 · Jer 16:10 · Lam 2:15 · Lam 4:12 · +1 more

9Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’”Cross-references: Deut 29:25 · 2Ki 22:17 · 2Chr 34:25 · Jer 2:17 · Jer 40:2 · Jer 50:7

10Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.Cross-references: 2Ki 22:20 · 2Ki 23:30 · 2Chr 35:23 · Eccl 4:2 · Isa 57:1 · Jer 22:11 · +4 more

11For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:31 · 2Ki 23:34 · 1Chr 3:15 · 2Chr 28:12 · 2Chr 34:22 · 2Chr 36:1

12But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.”Cross-references: 2Ki 23:34 · Jer 22:18

13“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;Cross-references: Lev 19:13 · Deut 24:14 · 2Ki 23:35 · 2Chr 36:4 · Job 24:10 · Jer 22:18 · +4 more

14who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:2 · 2Chr 3:5 · Prov 17:19 · Prov 24:27 · Song 1:17 · Isa 5:8 · +5 more

15“Should 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.Cross-references: Deut 4:40 · 2Sam 8:15 · 1Ki 4:20 · 1Ki 10:9 · 2Ki 22:2 · 2Ki 23:25 · +24 more

16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:2 · 1Chr 28:9 · Job 29:12 · Ps 9:10 · Ps 72:1 · Ps 72:12 · +16 more

17But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”Cross-references: Ex 18:21 · Josh 7:21 · 1Ki 21:19 · 2Ki 24:4 · 2Chr 36:8 · Job 31:7 · +19 more

18Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’Cross-references: 2Sam 1:26 · 2Sam 3:33 · 1Ki 13:30 · 2Chr 21:19 · 2Chr 35:25 · Jer 16:4 · +3 more

19He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”Cross-references: 1Ki 14:10 · 1Ki 21:23 · 2Ki 9:35 · 2Chr 36:6 · Jer 15:3 · Jer 36:6 · +1 more

20“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out. Lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers have been destroyed.Cross-references: Num 27:12 · Deut 32:49 · 2Ki 24:7 · Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:1 · Isa 31:1 · +10 more

21I 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.Cross-references: Deut 9:7 · Deut 9:24 · Deut 31:27 · Deut 32:15 · Judg 2:11 · 2Chr 33:10 · +17 more

22The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.Cross-references: Isa 64:6 · Jer 2:8 · Jer 2:26 · Jer 2:37 · Jer 4:11 · Jer 5:30 · +11 more

23Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!Cross-references: Num 24:21 · Jer 3:21 · Jer 4:30 · Jer 6:24 · Jer 21:13 · Jer 22:6 · +10 more

24“As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:6 · 1Chr 3:16 · Song 8:6 · Jer 22:6 · Jer 22:28 · Jer 37:1 · +2 more

25I would 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:15 · Prov 10:24 · Jer 21:7 · Jer 22:28 · Jer 34:20 · Jer 38:16

26I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:8 · 2Ki 24:15 · 2Chr 36:9 · Isa 22:17 · Jer 15:2 · Ezek 19:9

27But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return.”Cross-references: 2Ki 25:27 · Ps 86:4 · Jer 22:11 · Jer 44:14 · Jer 52:31

28Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?Cross-references: 1Sam 5:3 · 2Sam 5:21 · 1Chr 3:17 · Ps 31:12 · Jer 14:18 · Jer 15:1 · +8 more

29O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!Cross-references: Deut 4:26 · Deut 31:19 · Deut 32:1 · Isa 1:1 · Isa 34:1 · Jer 6:19 · +2 more

30Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne and ruling in Judah.”Cross-references: 1Chr 3:16 · Ps 94:20 · Jer 10:21 · Jer 36:30 · Matt 1:11 · Luke 1:32