Jeremiah · Literal Standard Version
Jeremiah 22 Literal Standard Version
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1 Thus said YHWH: “Go down [to] the house of the king of Judah, and you have spoken this word there, and have said,
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2 Hear a word of YHWH, O king of Judah, who are sitting on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people, who are coming in at these gates,”
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3 Thus said YHWH: “Do judgment and righteousness, || And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, || And sojourner, orphan, and widow, you do not oppress nor wrong, || And innocent blood you do not shed in this place.
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4 For if you certainly do this thing, || Then kings sitting for David on his throne || Have come in by the gates of this house, || Riding on chariot, and on horses, || He, and his servants, and his people.
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5 And if you do not hear these words, || I have sworn by Myself,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “That this house is for a desolation.”
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6 For thus said YHWH concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You [are] Gilead to Me—head of Lebanon, || If not—I make you a wilderness, || Cities [that] are not inhabited.
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7 And I have separated destroyers for you, || Each with his weapons, || And they have cut down the choice of your cedars, || And have cast them on the fire.”
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8 And many nations have passed by this city, || And they have each said to his neighbor, “Why has YHWH done thus to this great city?”
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9 And they have said, “Because that they have forsaken || The covenant of their God YHWH, || And bow themselves to other gods, and serve them.”
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10 You do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, || Weep severely for the traveler, || For he does not return again, || Nor has he seen the land of his birth.
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11 For thus said YHWH concerning Shallum son of Josiah king of Judah, who is reigning instead of his father Josiah, who has gone forth from this place: “He does not return here again;
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12 For he dies in the place to where they have removed him, || And he does not see this land again.
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13 Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, || And his upper chambers by injustice, || He lays service on his neighbor for nothing, || And he does not give his wage to him.
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14 Who is saying, || I build a large house for myself, || And airy upper chambers, || And he has cut out its windows for himself, || Covered with cedar, and painted with vermillion.
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15 Do you reign, because you are fretting yourself in cedar? Your father—did he not eat and drink? Indeed, he did judgment and righteousness, || Then [it is] well with him.
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16 He decided the cause of the poor and needy, || Then [it is] well—is it not to know Me?” A declaration of YHWH.
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17 “But your eyes and your heart are not, || Except on your dishonest gain, || And on shedding of innocent blood, || And on oppression, and on doing of violence.”
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18 Therefore, thus said YHWH concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They do not lament for him, || Oh, my brother! And, Oh, my sister! They do not lament for him, || Oh, lord! And, Oh, his splendor!
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19 He is buried [with] the burial of a donkey, || Dragged and cast out there to the gates of Jerusalem.
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20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry, || And give forth your voice in Bashan, || And cry from Abarim, || For all loving you have been destroyed.
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21 I have spoken to you in your ease, || You have said, I do not listen, || This [is] your way from your youth, || For you have not listened to My voice.
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22 Wind consumes all your friends, || And your lovers go into captivity, || Surely then you are ashamed, || And have blushed for all your wickedness.
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23 O dweller in Lebanon, making a nest among cedars, || How gracious have you been when pangs come to you, || Pain—as of a travailing woman.”
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24 “[As] I live,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah was a seal on My right hand, surely there I draw you away,
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25 And I have given you into the hand of those seeking your life, || And into hands of which you are afraid, || Into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, || And into the hand of the Chaldeans.
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26 And I have cast you, || And your mother who bore you, to another country, || Where you were not born, and you die there.
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27 And to the land to where they are lifting up their soul to return, || They do not return there.”
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28 A grief—a despised broken thing—is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Why have they been cast up and down, || He and his seed, || Indeed, were they cast on to a land that they did not know?
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29 Earth, earth, earth, hear a word of YHWH!
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30 Thus said YHWH: “Write this man down [as] childless, || A man—he does not prosper in his days, || For none of his seed prospers, || Sitting on the throne of David, || And ruling in Judah again!”
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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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