Jeremiah · Catholic Public Domain Version
Jeremiah 22 Catholic Public Domain Version
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1 Thus says the Lord: “Descend to the house of the king of Judah, and there you shall speak this word.
1 Yahweh said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there:
2 And you shall say: Listen to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, who sits upon the throne of David: you and your servants, and your people, who enter through these gates.
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.
3 Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.
3 Yahweh 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.
4 For if you will indeed accomplish this word, then there will enter through the gates of this house kings from the stock of David, sitting on his throne, and riding on chariots and on horses: they, and their servants, and their people.
4 For 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.
5 But if you will not listen to these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house will be in desolation.
5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”
6 For thus says the Lord about the house of the king of Judah: You are to me like Gilead, the head of Lebanon. Certainly, I will make you desolate, with uninhabitable cities.
6 For 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.
7 And I will sanctify over you the destroying man and his weapons. And they will cut down your select cedars and throw them violently into the fire.
7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
8 And many nations will pass through this city. And each one will say to his neighbor: ‘Why has the Lord acted in this way toward this great city?’
8 “Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’
9 And they will answer: ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, and they adored strange gods and served them.’
9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’”
10 You should not choose to weep for the dead, nor should you mourn over them with tears. Lament for him who is departing, for he will return no more, nor will he see his native land again.
10 Don’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.
11 For thus says the Lord to Shallum, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned in place of his father, who has departed from this place: He will not return here again.
11 For 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.
12 Instead, he will die in the place to which I have transferred him, and he will not see this land anymore.
12 But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.”
13 Woe to one who builds his house with injustice and his upper rooms without judgment, who oppresses his friend without cause and does not pay him his wages.
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;
14 And he says: ‘I will build a broad house for myself, with spacious upper rooms.’ He makes windows for himself, and he builds the roof out of cedar, and he paints it with red ocher.
14 who 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.
15 Will you reign because you compare yourself to the cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and act with judgment and justice, so that it would be well with him?
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.
16 He judged the case of the poor and the indigent for their good. Was this not because he knew me, says the Lord?
16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
17 Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds.
17 But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
18 Because of this, thus says the Lord toward Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not mourn for him by saying, ‘Alas,’ to a brother, or, ‘Alas,’ to a sister. They will not make a noise for him and say, ‘Alas,’ to a master, or, ‘Alas,’ to a nobleman.
18 Therefore 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!’
19 He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, having rotted and been thrown out of the gates of Jerusalem.
19 He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
20 Ascend to Lebanon and cry out! And utter your voice in Bashan, and cry out to those passing by. For all your lovers have been crushed.
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.
21 I spoke to you in your abundance, and you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, for you have not listened to my voice.
21 I 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.
22 The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. And then you will be confounded, and you will be ashamed of all your wickedness.
22 The 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.
23 You who sit in Lebanon, and who nest in the cedars, in what way did you mourn when suffering came to you, like the suffering of a woman giving birth?
23 Inhabitant 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!
24 As I live, says the Lord, if Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a ring on my right hand, I would remove him from there.
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.
25 And I will deliver you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you dread, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
25 I 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.
26 And I will send you, and your mother who conceived you, into a foreign land, in which you were not born, and there you shall die.
26 I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.
27 And to the land about which they lift up their mind, thinking to return there, they shall not return.
27 But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return.”
28 Is this man, Jeconiah, a broken earthenware vessel? Is he a vessel which is entirely unpleasing? Why have they been cast out, he and his offspring, cast out even into a land that they have not known?
28 Is 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?
29 O earth, O earth, O earth! Listen to the word of the Lord!
29 O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!
30 Thus says the Lord: Write: this man is barren; he is a man who will not prosper in his days. For there will not be a man from among his offspring who will sit upon the throne of David, or have authority in Judah, anymore.”
30 Yahweh 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.”
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Jeconiah
Carried captive to Babylon, he marks the low point of David's fallen throne.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 24:8-17; 25:27-30; Jer. 22:24-30; Matt. 1:11-12
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 34:2; Luke 3:19–20; Mark 6:18; 1 Kings 21:18–20; 2 Samuel 12:1
- 2 Luke 1:32; Isaiah 9:7; Jeremiah 22:4; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 28:14
- 3 Jeremiah 21:12; Micah 6:8; Jeremiah 22:17; James 1:27; Ezekiel 22:7
- 4 Jeremiah 17:25
- 5 Amos 6:8; Hebrews 6:13; Jeremiah 17:27; Genesis 22:16; Deuteronomy 32:40–42
- 6 Isaiah 6:11; Psalm 107:34; Micah 3:12; Isaiah 27:10; Jeremiah 9:11
- 7 Jeremiah 4:6–7; Isaiah 10:33–34; Isaiah 37:24; Ezekiel 9:1–7; Isaiah 13:3–5
- 8 1 Kings 9:8–9; 2 Chronicles 7:20–22; Deuteronomy 29:23–26; Lamentations 2:15–17; Jeremiah 16:10
- 9 2 Chronicles 34:25; 2 Kings 22:17; Jeremiah 40:2–3; Jeremiah 2:17–19; Deuteronomy 29:25–28
- 10 Ecclesiastes 4:2; Jeremiah 22:11; Lamentations 4:9; Isaiah 57:1; 2 Kings 22:20
- 11 1 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Kings 23:34; 2 Chronicles 36:1–4; 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Chronicles 34:22
- 12 2 Kings 23:34; Jeremiah 22:18
- 13 James 5:4; Micah 3:10; Leviticus 19:13; Malachi 3:5; Deuteronomy 24:14–15
- 14 2 Samuel 7:2; Isaiah 5:8–9; Haggai 1:4; Luke 14:28–29; Daniel 4:30
- 15 2 Kings 23:25; Isaiah 3:10; Ecclesiastes 10:17; Proverbs 25:5; Proverbs 29:4
- 16 Jeremiah 9:24; 1 John 2:3–4; Isaiah 1:17; Titus 1:16; Psalm 72:1–4
- 17 2 Peter 2:14; Ezekiel 19:6; 2 Kings 24:4; Jeremiah 22:3; Psalm 10:3
- 18 1 Kings 13:30; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 22:10; Jeremiah 16:4; 2 Samuel 1:26
- 19 Jeremiah 36:30; 1 Kings 21:23–24; 1 Kings 14:10; Jeremiah 36:6; 2 Kings 9:35
- 20 Numbers 27:12; Lamentations 1:2; Ezekiel 23:22; Isaiah 20:5–6; Lamentations 1:19
- 21 Jeremiah 32:30; Jeremiah 3:25; Jeremiah 7:22–28; Ezekiel 23:3–39; Isaiah 48:8
- 22 Ezekiel 34:2–10; Jeremiah 23:1–2; Zechariah 11:17; Hosea 13:15; Jeremiah 12:10
- 23 Jeremiah 6:24; Jeremiah 22:6; Jeremiah 4:30–31; Zechariah 11:1–2; Jeremiah 50:4–5
- 24 Jeremiah 37:1; Song of Songs 8:6; 1 Chronicles 3:16; Haggai 2:23; 2 Kings 24:6–8
- 25 Jeremiah 34:20–21; Jeremiah 21:7; 2 Kings 24:15–16; Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 38:16
- 26 2 Kings 24:15; Jeremiah 15:2–4; 2 Kings 24:8; Isaiah 22:17; Ezekiel 19:9–14
- 27 Jeremiah 44:14; Jeremiah 52:31–34; Jeremiah 22:11; 2 Kings 25:27–30; Psalm 86:4
- 28 Hosea 8:8; Psalm 31:12; Jeremiah 48:38; Jeremiah 22:30; Jeremiah 15:1
- 29 Deuteronomy 32:1; Micah 1:2; Jeremiah 6:19; Isaiah 1:1–2; Micah 6:1–2
- 30 Jeremiah 36:30; Psalm 94:20; Matthew 1:11–16; Luke 1:32–33; 1 Chronicles 3:16–17
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