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,
1 Yahweh said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there:
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,”
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 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.
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 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.
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 And if you do not hear these words, || I have sworn by Myself,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “That this house is for a 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 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.
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 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.”
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 have passed by this city, || And they have each said to his neighbor, “Why has YHWH done thus to 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 have said, “Because that they have forsaken || The covenant of their God YHWH, || And bow themselves to other gods, and serve them.”
9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’”
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.
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 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;
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 For he dies in the place to where they have removed him, || And he does not see this land again.
12 But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.”
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 decided the cause of the poor and needy, || Then [it is] well—is it not to know Me?” A declaration of YHWH.
16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
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.”
17 But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
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!
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 is buried [with] the burial of a donkey, || Dragged and cast out there to 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 Go up to Lebanon, and cry, || And give forth your voice in Bashan, || And cry from Abarim, || For all loving you have been destroyed.
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 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.
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 Wind consumes all your friends, || And your lovers go into captivity, || Surely then you are ashamed, || And have blushed for 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 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.”
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,” || 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,
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 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.
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 have cast you, || And your mother who bore you, to another country, || Where you were not born, and you die there.
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 to where they are lifting up their soul to return, || They do not return there.”
27 But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return.”
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?
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 Earth, earth, earth, hear a word of YHWH!
29 O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!
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!”
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.”
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
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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