1 Hæc dicit Dominus: Descende in domum regis Juda, et loqueris ibi verbum hoc, 2 et dices: [Audi verbum Domini, rex Juda, qui sedes super solium David: tu et servi tui, et populus tuus, qui ingredimini per portas istas. 3 Hæc dicit Dominus: Facite judicium et justitiam, et liberate vi oppressum de manu calumniatoris: et advenam, et pupillum, et viduam nolite contristare, neque opprimatis inique, et sanguinem innocentem ne effundatis in loco isto. 4 Si enim facientes feceritis verbum istud, ingredientur per portas domus hujus reges sedentes de genere David super thronum ejus, et ascendentes currus et equos, ipsi, et servi, et populus eorum. 5 Quod si non audieritis verba hæc: in memetipso juravi, dicit Dominus, quia in solitudinem erit domus hæc. 6 Quia hæc dicit Dominus super domum regis Juda: Galaad, tu mihi caput Libani, si non posuero te solitudinem, urbes inhabitabiles ! 7 Et sanctificabo super te, interficientem virum et arma ejus: et succident electas cedros tuas, et præcipitabunt in ignem. 8 Et pertransibunt gentes multæ per civitatem hanc, et dicet unusquisque proximo suo: Quare fecit Dominus sic civitati huic grandi? 9 Et respondebunt: Eo quod dereliquerint pactum Domini Dei sui, et adoraverint deos alienos, et servierint eis. 10 Nolite flere mortuum, neque lugeatis super eum fletu: plangite eum qui egreditur, quia non revertetur ultra, nec videbit terram nativitatis suæ. 11 Quia hæc dicit Dominus ad Sellum, filium Josiæ, regem Juda, qui regnavit pro Josia patre suo, qui egressus est de loco isto: Non revertetur huc amplius, 12 sed in loco ad quem transtuli eum, ibi morietur, et terram istam non videbit amplius. 13 Væ qui ædificat domum suam in injustitia, et cœnacula sua non in judicio: amicum suum opprimet frustra, et mercedem ejus non reddet ei: 14 qui dicit: Ædificabo mihi domum latam, et cœnacula spatiosa: qui aperit sibi fenestras et facit laquearia cedrina, pingitque sinopide. 15 Numquid regnabis quoniam confers te cedro? pater tuus numquid non comedit et bibit, et fecit judicium et justitiam tunc cum bene erat ei? 16 Judicavit causam pauperis et egeni in bonum suum: numquid non ideo quia cognovit me? dicit Dominus. 17 Tui vero oculi et cor ad avaritiam, et ad sanguinem innocentem fundendum, et ad calumniam, et ad cursum mali operis. 18 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus ad Joakim, filium Josiæ, regem Juda: Non plangent eum: Væ frater ! et væ soror ! non concrepabunt ei: Væ domine ! et væ inclyte ! 19 Sepultura asini sepelietur, putrefactus et projectus extra portas Jerusalem.] 20 [Ascende Libanum, et clama, et in Basan da vocem tuam: et clama ad transeuntes, quia contriti sunt omnes amatores tui. 21 Locutus sum ad te in abundantia tua, et dixisti: Non audiam: hæc est via tua ab adolescentia tua, quia non audisti vocem meam. 22 Omnes pastores tuos pascet ventus, et amatores tui in captivitatem ibunt: et tunc confunderis, et erubesces ab omni malitia tua. 23 Quæ sedes in Libano, et nidificas in cedris, quomodo congemuisti cum venissent tibi dolores, quasi dolores parturientis? 24 Vivo ego, dicit Dominus, quia si fuerit Jechonias filius Joakim regis Juda annulus in manu dextera mea, inde evellam eum, 25 et dabo te in manu quærentium animam tuam, et in manu quorum tu formidas faciem, et in manu Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis, et in manu Chaldæorum: 26 et mittam te, et matrem tuam quæ genuit te, in terram alienam, in qua nati non estis, ibique moriemini. 27 Et in terram ad quam ipsi levant animam suam ut revertantur illuc, non revertentur. 28 Numquid vas fictile atque contritum vir iste Jechonias? numquid vas absque omni voluptate? quare abjecti sunt ipse et semen ejus, et projecti in terram quam ignoraverunt? 29 Terra, terra, terra, audi sermonem Domini. 30 Hæc dicit Dominus: Scribe virum istum sterilem, virum qui in diebus suis non prosperabitur: nec enim erit de semine ejus vir qui sedeat super solium David, et potestatem habeat ultra in Juda.]
Jeremiah 22 Clementine Vulgate
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Jeconiah
Carried captive to Babylon, he marks the low point of David's fallen throne.
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- 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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