Jer 21:11-22:30 | ESV | STEP | And to the house of the king of Judah say, Hear the word of the Lord ,

11 “And to the house of the king of Judah say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, 12 O house of David! Thus says the Lord:

^a“‘Execute justice ^bin the morning,
and deliver from the hand of the oppressor
him who has been robbed,
^clest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn with none to quench it,
because of your evil deeds.’”
13 ^d“Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,
O rock of the plain,

declares the Lord;
you who say, ^e‘Who shall come down against us,
or who shall enter our habitations?’
14 ^fI will punish you according to ^gthe fruit of your deeds,

declares the Lord;
^hI will kindle a fire in her forest,
ⁱand it shall devour all that is around her.”

Jeremiah 22

1 Thus says the Lord: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, 2 and say, ^j‘Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates. 3 Thus says the Lord: ^kDo justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And ^ldo no wrong or violence ^mto the resident alien, ⁿthe fatherless, and the widow, nor ^oshed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you will indeed obey this word, ^pthen there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people. 5 But if you will not obey these words, I ^qswear by myself, declares the Lord, that ^rthis house shall become a desolation. 6 For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“‘You are like Gilead to me,
like the summit of ^sLebanon,
yet surely I will make you a desert,
^tan uninhabited city. ^{▼▼Hebrew cities}
7 ^vI will prepare destroyers against you,
each with his weapons,
^wand they shall cut down your choicest cedars
and cast them into the fire.
8 “‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, ^x“Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?” 9 ^yAnd they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”

10 ^zWeep not for him who is dead,
nor grieve for him,
^aabut weep bitterly for him who goes away,
for he shall return no more
to see his native land.

Message to the Sons of Josiah

11 For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and ^abwho went away from this place: “He shall return here no more, 12 but ^acin the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.”

13 ^ad“Woe to him who builds his house by ^aeunrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by injustice,
^afwho makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his wages,
14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and ^agpainting it with vermilion.
15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and ^ahdo justice and righteousness?
^aiThen it was well with him.
16 ^ajHe judged the cause of the poor and needy;
^akthen it was well.
Is not this ^alto know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
^amfor shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

^an“They shall not lament for him, saying,
^ao‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
^ap‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey ^aqhe shall be buried,
dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
and lift up your voice in Bashan;
cry out from ^arAbarim,
for all ^asyour lovers are destroyed.
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
^atThis has been your way from ^auyour youth,
that you have not obeyed my voice.
22 ^avThe wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and ^awyour lovers shall go into captivity;
^axthen you will be ashamed and confounded
because of all your evil.
23 O inhabitant of ^ayLebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
^azpain as of a woman in labor!”
24 ^ba“As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were ^bbthe signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25 and ^bcgive you ^bdinto the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 ^beI will hurl you and ^bfthe mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”

28 Is this man ^bgConiah a despised, broken pot,
a ^bhvessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a ^biland that they do not know?
29 ^bjO land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord!
30 Thus says the Lord:
“Write this man down as ^bkchildless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
^blfor none of his offspring shall succeed
^bmin sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.”