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21:1The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, Compare
21:2Inquire for us of Jehovah, for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps Jehovah will deal with us according to all His wonderful deeds, so that he goes up from us. Compare
21:3Then Jeremiah said to them, Thus you will say to Zedekiah, Compare
21:4Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hand and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans, who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will gather them together into the midst of this city. Compare
21:5I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm and in anger and wrath and great indignation. Compare
21:6And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence. Compare
21:7And afterward, declares Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah the king of Judah and his servants and the people who remain in this city after the pestilence and after the sword and after the famine into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and he will strike them with the edge of the sword and will not pity them or spare them or have compassion on them. Compare
21:8And to this people you shall say, Thus says Jehovah, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death. Compare
21:9He who remains in this city will die by sword and by famine and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live and have his own life as spoil. Compare
21:10For I have set My face against this city for evil and not for good, declares Jehovah; it will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire. Compare
21:11And to the house of the king of Judah say, Hear the word of Jehovah, Compare
21:12O house of David, thus says Jehovah: / Execute judgment every morning, / And deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, / Lest My wrath go forth like fire / And burn, and there be no one to extinguish it, / Because of the evil of your deeds. Compare
21:13Indeed, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, / O rock of the plateau, declares Jehovah, / Those who say, Who will come down against us, / And who will enter into our habitations? Compare
21:14But I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, / Declares Jehovah, / And I will kindle a fire in her forest, / And it will devour all that is around her. Compare
22:1Thus says Jehovah, Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there, Compare
22:2And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people, who enter through these gates: Compare
22:3Thus says Jehovah, Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the orphan, or the widow; nor shed innocent blood in this place. Compare
22:4For if you indeed do this thing, then kings sitting in David's place on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses-the king and his servants and his people will come through the gates of this house; Compare
22:5But if you do not listen to these things, I swear by Myself, declares Jehovah, that this house will become a ruin. Compare
22:6For thus says Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah, You are Gilead to Me, / The summit of Lebanon; / Yet I will surely make you a wilderness, / Cities that are not inhabited. Compare
22:7And I will set apart destroyers against you, / Each with his weapons; / And they will cut down your choice cedars / And cast them into the fire. Compare
22:8And many nations will pass by this city, and they will say each one to his neighbor, Why has Jehovah done this to this great city? Compare
22:9And they will say, It is because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God and bowed down to other gods and served them. Compare
22:10Do not weep for the one who died, nor lament for him; / But weep bitterly for the one who goes away, / For he will no longer return and see / The land of his birth. Compare
22:11For thus says Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who became king in the place of Josiah his father, who went away from this place: He will not return there anymore; Compare
22:12But in the place where they have exiled him he will die and never see this land again. Compare
22:13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness / And his upper rooms by injustice, / Who uses his neighbor's service without wages / And does not give him recompense for his work, Compare
22:14Who says, I will build myself a large house / With spacious upper chambers, / And cuts out for it windows; and it is paneled with cedar / And painted with vermilion. Compare
22:15Are you a king because you / Excel in cedar? / Did not your father eat and drink, / And execute judgment and righteousness? Thus it was well with him. Compare
22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; thus it was well. / Is not this to know Me? / Declares Jehovah. Compare
22:17But you have eyes and a heart / Only for your unjust gain / And for shedding innocent blood / And for oppression and doing violence. Compare
22:18Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, They will not wail for him, saying, / Alas, my brother! or, Alas, sister! / They will not wail for him, saying, / Alas, lord! or, Alas, his majesty! Compare
22:19He will be buried with the burial of a donkey - / Dragged and cast out / Beyond the gates of Jerusalem. Compare
22:20Go up to Lebanon and cry out; / And lift up your voice in Bashan, / And cry out from Abarim, / For all your lovers have been shattered. Compare
22:21I spoke to you in your prosperity; / But you said, I will not listen. / This has been your way from your youth, / That you have not listened to My voice. Compare
22:22The wind will shepherd all your shepherds, / And your lovers will go into captivity; / Then you will be ashamed and confounded / Because of all your wickedness. Compare
22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, / Nested among the cedars, / How you will be pitied when pains come to you, / Anguish like that of a woman giving birth. Compare
22:24As I live, declares Jehovah, Even though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would tear you off, Compare
22:25And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life and into the hand of those whom you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. Compare
22:26I will cast you and your mother who bore you far away into another land where you were not born, and there you will die. Compare
22:27But to the land to which they desire to return, they will not return. Compare
22:28Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered container? / Or is he a vessel no one delights in? / Why are he and his seed thrown away / And cast into a land which they do not know? Compare
22:29O land, land, land, / Hear the word of Jehovah: Compare
22:30Thus says Jehovah, / Write down this man as childless, / A man who will not prosper in his days; / For none of his seed will prosper / By sitting on the throne of David / Or by ruling again in Judah. Compare
23:1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, declares Jehovah. Compare
23:2Therefore thus says Jehovah the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who shepherd My people, You have scattered My flock and driven them away and have not visited them; I will visit upon you the evil of your deeds, declares Jehovah. Compare
23:3Then I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their pasture; and they will be fruitful and multiply. Compare
23:4And I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they will no longer fear or be dismayed, nor will any be missing, declares Jehovah. Compare
23:5Indeed, days are coming, / Declares Jehovah, / When I will raise up to David a righteous Shoot; / And He will reign as King and act prudently / And will execute justice and righteousness in the land. Compare
23:6In His days Judah will be saved, / And Israel will dwell securely; / And this is His name by which He will be called, / Jehovah our righteousness. Compare
23:7Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when they will no longer say, As Jehovah lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; Compare
23:8But, As Jehovah lives, who brought up and led back the seed of the house of Israel out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where I had driven them, that they might dwell in their own land. Compare

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