Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
This
is
what
the
LORD
says:
“
Go down to the palace
of the king of Judah and proclaim
this
message
there,
Thus
said
Jehovah,
`
Go down `
to '
the house
of the king of Judah ,
and thou
hast
spoken
there this
word
, and
hast
said,
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 .
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 ,
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
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.
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
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.
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
. ’”
And
if ye
do not hear
these words, By myself I
have
sworn
--
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
, That this house is
for
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
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
.
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 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.
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 have
passed
by this city ,
And they
have
said
, each
to
his
neighbour,
For
what
hath
Jehovah
done thus
to 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. ’”
And
they
have
said
, `
Because that
they have forsaken The covenant of Jehovah
their God ,
And bow
themselves
to
other gods ,
and
serve
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.
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
.
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
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;
but
he
will
die
in the place to
which
he
was
exiled;
he will
never
see
this land again. ”
For
in the place whither
they
have
removed
him
he dieth,
And
this land he
doth
not
see
again.
“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,
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.
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
.
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
.
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.
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.
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 decided
the cause of the poor and needy, Then
`
it is'
well --
is it not
to know Me? An
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
“
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 thy
heart are not,
Except on
thy
dishonest gain, And
on shedding of
innocent blood, And on
oppression ,
and
on
doing
of
violence
.
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
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.
He will
be
buried like
a
donkey
, dragged away
and thrown
outside
the gates of Jerusalem.
The
burial
of
an
ass
--
he is
buried, Dragged and cast
out
thence
to
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
in Bashan give
forth
thy
voice,
And
cry from Abarim, For destroyed
have been all
loving
thee
.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 dweller
in
Lebanon, making
a
nest
among
cedars, How gracious
hast
thou
been
when pangs come to
thee
, Pain
--
as
of
a travailing
woman.
“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.
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,
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 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.
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 have
cast
thee,
And thy
mother who bore
thee,
unto
another country
, Where ye
were not
born ,
and there do
ye
die.
You
will
never
return
to the land for
which
you
long
. ”
And
to the land whither
they
are
lifting
up
their
soul
to
return,
Thither
they
do
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
?
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?
O
land
, land
, land
, hear the
word of the
LORD!
Earth
, earth
, earth
, hear a
word of Jehovah,
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
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 !
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