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1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Ju­dah, and speak there this word, 2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Ju­dah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy ser­vants, and thy peo­ple that en­ter in by these gates: 3 Thus saith the LORD; Ex­e­cute ye judg­ment 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. 4 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. 5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by my­self, saith the LORD, that this house shall be­come a des­o­la­tion. 6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Ju­dah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet sure­ly I will make thee a wilder­ness, and cities which are not in­hab­it­ed. 7 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. 8 And many na­tions shall pass by this city, and they shall say ev­ery man to his neigh­bour, Where­fore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city? 9 Then they shall an­swer, Be­cause they have for­sak­en the covenant of the LORD their God, and wor­shipped oth­er gods, and served them. 10 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. 11 For thus saith the LORD touch­ing Shal­lum the son of Josi­ah king of Ju­dah, which reigned in­stead of Josi­ah his fa­ther, which went forth out of this place; He shall not re­turn thith­er any more: 12 But he shall die in the place whith­er they have led him cap­tive, and shall see this land no more. 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by un­righ­teous­ness, and his cham­bers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's ser­vice with­out wages, and giveth him not for his work; 14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large cham­bers, and cut­teth him out win­dows; and it is cieled with cedar, and paint­ed with ver­mil­ion. 15 Shalt thou reign, be­cause thou clos­est thyself in cedar? did not thy fa­ther eat and drink, and do judg­ment and jus­tice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy cov­etous­ness, and for to shed in­no­cent blood, and for op­pres­sion, and for vi­o­lence, to do it. 18 There­fore thus saith the LORD con­cern­ing Je­hoiakim the son of Josi­ah king of Ju­dah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my broth­er! or, Ah sis­ter! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glo­ry! 19 He shall be buried with the buri­al of an ass, drawn and cast forth be­yond the gates of Jerusalem. 20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the pas­sages: for all thy lovers are de­stroyed. 21 I spake unto thee in thy pros­per­i­ty; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy man­ner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 22 The wind shall eat up all thy pas­tors, and thy lovers shall go into cap­tiv­i­ty: sure­ly then shalt thou be ashamed and con­found­ed for all thy wicked­ness. 23 O in­hab­i­tant of Lebanon, that mak­est thy nest in the cedars, how gra­cious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a wom­an in tra­vail! 24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Co­ni­ah the son of Je­hoiakim king of Ju­dah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; 25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fear­est, even into the hand of Neb­uchadrez­zar king of Baby­lon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy moth­er that bare thee, into an­oth­er coun­try, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. 27 But to the land where­un­to they de­sire to re­turn, thith­er shall they not re­turn. 28 Is this man Co­ni­ah a de­spised bro­ken idol? is he a ves­sel where­in is no plea­sure? where­fore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. 30 Thus saith the LORD, 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.