Book 13 : NEVIIM - JEREMIAH - Chapter 022
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Thus said HaShem: Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word
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and say: Hear the word of HaShem, O king of Judah, that
sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that
enter in by these gates
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Thus saith HaShem: Execute ye justice 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
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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
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But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by Myself,
saith HaShem, that this house shall become a desolation
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For thus saith HaShem concerning the house of the king of
Judah: Thou art Gilead unto Me, the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make thee
a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited
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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
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And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall
say every man to his neighbour: 'Wherefore hath HaShem done thus unto this great
city?
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Then they shall answer: 'Because they forsook the covenant
of HaShem their G-d, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
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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
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For thus saith HaShem touching Shallum the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out
of this place: He shall not return thither any more
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but in the place whither they have led him captive, there
shall he die, and he shall see this land no more
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Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,
and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbour's service without wages,
and giveth him not his hire
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That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious
chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted
with vermilion
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Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar?
Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was
well with him
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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was
well. Is not this to know Me? saith HaShem
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But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy
covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for
violence, to do it
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Therefore thus saith HaShem concerning Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah, king of Judah: They shall not lament for him: 'Ah my brother!' or:
'Ah sister!' They shall not lament for him: 'Ah lord!' or: 'Ah his glory!
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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and
cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem
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Go up to Lebanon, and cry, and lift up thy voice in Bashan;
and cry from Abarim, for all thy lovers are destroyed
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I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity, but thou saidst: 'I
will not hear.' This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou hearkenedst
not to My voice
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The wind shall feed upon all thy shepherds, and thy lovers
shall go into captivity; surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for
all thy wickedness
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O inhabitant of Lebanon, that art nestled in the cedars,
how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in
travail
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As I live, saith HaShem, though Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon My right hand, yet would I pluck
thee thence
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and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy
life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans
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And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bore thee,
into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die
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But to the land whereunto they long to return, thither
shall they not return
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Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image? Is he a
vessel wherein is no pleasure? Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and
are cast into the land which they know not
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O land, land, land, hear the word of HaShem
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Thus saith HaShem: 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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