Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
This
is
what
the LORD says:
“
Go down to the palace
of the king of Judah and proclaim
this
message
there,
Thus
saith
the LORD ;
Go down to the house
of the king of Judah ,
and speak
there this
word
,
saying
, ‘
Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who
sits
on
the throne of David —you
and your
officials
and your
people who
enter these gates .
And
say
, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that
sittest
upon
the throne of David ,
thou,
and thy
servants,
and thy
people that
enter in
by
these gates :
This
is
what
the LORD says:
Administer
justice
and righteousness .
Rescue
the victim
of robbery
from
the hand of his
oppressor .
Do no wrong or
violence to the foreigner
, the fatherless, or
the widow .
Do
not
shed innocent blood in this place.
Thus
saith
the LORD ;
Execute
ye
judgment
and righteousness ,
and
deliver
the spoiled
out
of the hand of the
oppressor :
and
do no wrong ,
do
no
violence to the stranger
, the fatherless, nor
the widow ,
neither
shed innocent blood in this place.
For if you
will
indeed carry
out
these
commands
, then kings
who
sit
on
David’s
throne
will
enter through
the gates of this palace
riding on
chariots and horses —they
and their
officials
and their
people.
For if ye
do
this
thing
indeed, then shall
there
enter in
by
the gates of this house
kings
sitting
upon
the
throne
of
David,
riding in
chariots and on
horses ,
he,
and his
servants,
and his
people.
But if you
do
not obey
these words, then
I swear by Myself, declares
the LORD, that this house will
become a pile
of
rubble
. ’”
But if ye
will
not hear
these words, I swear by myself, saith
the LORD, that this house shall
become a desolation
.
For this
is
what
the LORD says
concerning
the house of the
king
of
Judah :
“You
are
like
Gilead to
Me, like
the summit
of Lebanon ;
but
I will surely
turn
you
into
a desert
, like
cities that
are uninhabited
.
For thus
saith
the LORD unto
the king's
house of Judah ;
Thou
art
Gilead unto
me, and
the head
of Lebanon :
yet
surely
I will make
thee
a wilderness
, and
cities which
are not
inhabited
.
I will appoint
destroyers against you
, each
man
with his weapons ,
and they will
cut down the
choicest
of
your
cedars and throw
them into the fire.
And
I will prepare
destroyers against thee
, every
one
with his weapons :
and they shall
cut down thy
choice
cedars ,
and cast
them into the fire.
And many nations will
pass by this city and ask
one
another
, ‘Why
has
the LORD done such
a
thing
to
this great city? ’
And many nations shall
pass by this city ,
and they
shall
say
every
man
to
his
neighbour
, Wherefore
hath
the LORD done thus
unto
this great city?
Then people
will
reply
, ‘
Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and
have
worshiped
and served
other gods. ’”
Then they
shall
answer
, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God ,
and worshipped
other gods ,
and
served
them
.
Do
not
weep for the dead king;
do
not
mourn
his
loss.
Weep bitterly
for the
one
who
is
exiled,
for he will
never
return to
see his native land
.
Weep ye
not
for the dead ,
neither
bemoan
him:
but
weep sore
for him
that
goeth
away:
for he shall
return no
more,
nor
see his native country
.
For this
is
what
the LORD says
concerning
Shallum son of Josiah ,
king of Judah, who
succeeded
his father Josiah
but
has
gone
forth from
this place :
“
He will
never
return ,
For thus
saith
the LORD touching
Shallum the
son of Josiah king of Judah, which
reigned
instead
of
Josiah
his father ,
which
went
forth out
of
this place ;
He shall
not
return thither
any
more:
but he will
die in the place to
which
he
was
exiled;
he
will
never
see this land again
. ”
But he shall
die in the place whither
they
have
led
him
captive,
and
shall
see this land no
more
.
“
Woe to
him who
builds
his palace
by unrighteousness, and his upper
rooms
without
justice,
who
makes
his countrymen
serve
without pay,
and
fails
to
pay
their
wages,
Woe unto
him that
buildeth
his house
by unrighteousness, and his chambers
by
wrong;
that
useth
his neighbour's
service
without wages, and
giveth
him
not
for
his
work;
who
says
, ‘
I will build myself
a great
palace
, with
spacious
upper
rooms.’
So
he
cuts
windows in
it,
panels
it with cedar, and paints
it
with vermilion.
That
saith
, I will build me
a wide
house
and
large
chambers
, and
cutteth
him
out
windows ;
and
it is
cieled
with cedar, and painted
with vermilion.
Does
it
make
you
a
king
to
excel
in cedar? Did not your
father have
food
and drink ?
He
administered
justice
and righteousness
, and so
it went
well with him .
Shalt
thou
reign,
because
thou
closest
thyself
in cedar? did not thy
father eat
and drink ,
and do
judgment
and
justice
, and then
it was
well with him ?
He took
up
the cause of the poor and needy ,
and
so
it went
well with him .
Is
this
not what
it
means
to know Me? ”
declares
the LORD.
He judged
the cause of the poor and needy ;
then
it was
well with him :
was
not this
to know me? saith
the LORD.
“
But your
eyes and heart are set
on
nothing
except
your
own
dishonest
gain
, on
shedding
innocent blood, on
practicing
extortion
and oppression. ”
But thine
eyes and thine
heart are not
but
for
thy
covetousness
, and
for
to
shed
innocent blood, and for
oppression ,
and
for
violence,
to
do
it
.
Therefore this
is
what
the LORD says
concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah :
“
They will
not mourn
for him :
‘Alas
, my brother! Alas
, my
sister! ’
They will
not mourn
for him :
‘Alas
, my
master
! Alas
, his splendor
! ’
Therefore thus
saith
the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah ;
They shall
not lament
for him, saying,
Ah
my brother! or
, Ah
sister! they shall
not lament
for him, saying,
Ah
lord
! or
, Ah
his glory
!
He will
be buried like
a
donkey
, dragged
away
and thrown
outside
the gates of Jerusalem.
He shall
be buried with
the
burial
of
an
ass
, drawn
and cast
forth
beyond
the gates of Jerusalem.
Go up to Lebanon and cry out
; raise
your
voice in Bashan ;
cry out
from Abarim,
for all your
lovers have
been
crushed
.
Go up to Lebanon ,
and cry; and
lift
up
thy
voice in Bashan ,
and
cry from the
passages:
for all thy
lovers are
destroyed
.
I warned
you
when
you
were
secure.
You
said
, ‘
I will not listen
. ’
This has
been your
way
from youth, that you
have
not obeyed
My voice.
I spake
unto
thee
in
thy
prosperity;
but
thou
saidst
, I will not hear
. This hath
been thy
manner
from thy
youth, that thou
obeyedst
not my voice.
The wind will
drive
away
all your
shepherds
, and your
lovers will
go into captivity .
Then you
will
be ashamed and humiliated
because
of
all your
wickedness.
The wind shall
eat
up
all thy
pastors
, and thy
lovers shall
go into captivity :
surely
then shalt
thou
be ashamed and confounded
for
all thy
wickedness.
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled
in the cedars, how you
will
groan
when pangs of
anguish
come upon you
, agony
like
a woman in labor.”
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that
makest
thy
nest
in the cedars, how gracious
shalt
thou
be
when pangs come upon thee
, the
pain
as
of
a woman in travail!
“
As surely
as
I live, ”
declares
the LORD, “even
if
you,
Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah ,
were a
signet ring
on
My right hand, I
would pull
you
off.
As I live, saith
the LORD, though
Coniah the
son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the
signet upon
my right hand, yet
would I
pluck
thee
thence;
In
fact,
I will hand you
over
to
those
you
dread,
who
want
to
take
your
life —to
Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon and to
the Chaldeans.
And
I will give
thee
into
the
hand of
them
that
seek
thy
life ,
and
into
the
hand
of
them
whose
face
thou
fearest,
even
into
the
hand
of
Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon ,
and into
the hand
of
the
Chaldeans.
I will hurl
you
and the
mother who
gave
you
birth
into another land
, where neither
of
you
were born —
and there you
both
will
die.
And
I will cast
thee
out,
and thy
mother that
bare
thee,
into another country
, where ye
were not
born ;
and there shall
ye
die.
You
will
never
return
to the land for
which
you
long
. ”
But
to the land whereunto
they
desire
to
return,
thither
shall
they
not
return
.
Is this man Coniah a despised and
shattered
pot,
a jar
that
no one
wants
? Why
are he and his descendants
hurled
out
and cast into a land they do
not
know?
Is this man Coniah a despised broken
idol?
is
he
a vessel
wherein
is
no pleasure
? wherefore
are they
cast
out,
he and his seed,
and are
cast into a land which
they know not
?
O land
, land
, land
, hear the word of the LORD !
O earth
, earth
, earth
, hear the word of the LORD .
This
is
what
the LORD says:
“Enroll
this man as
childless, a man who
will
not prosper in his lifetime.
None
of his descendants
will
prosper to
sit
on
the throne of David or
to
rule
again
in Judah. ”
Thus
saith
the LORD ,
Write
ye
this man childless, a man that
shall
not prosper in his days:
for
no
man
of his seed
shall
prosper ,
sitting
upon
the throne of David ,
and
ruling
any
more
in Judah.
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