Jer 4:5, 5:14, 6:1, Jer 22 | ESV | STEP | Declare in Judah , and proclaim in Jerusalem , and say , Blow the trumpet through the land ; cry aloud and say , Assemble , and let us go into the fortified cities !

5 Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,

^a“Blow the trumpet through the land;
cry aloud and say,
^b‘Assemble, and let us go
into the fortified cities!’

Jeremiah 5:14

The Lord Proclaims Judgment

14 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts:
“Because you have spoken this word,
behold, ^cI am making my words in your mouth ^da fire,
and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them.

Jeremiah 6:1

Impending Disaster for Jerusalem

1 Flee for safety, ^eO people of Benjamin,
from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in ^fTekoa,
and raise a signal on ^gBeth-haccherem,
for disaster looms ^hout of the north,
and great destruction.

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, ⁱ‘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: ^jDo justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And ^kdo no wrong or violence ^lto the resident alien, ^mthe fatherless, and the widow, nor ⁿshed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you will indeed obey this word, ^othen 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 ^pswear by myself, declares the Lord, that ^qthis 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 ^rLebanon,
yet surely I will make you a desert,
^san uninhabited city. ^{▼▼Hebrew cities}
7 ^uI will prepare destroyers against you,
each with his weapons,
^vand 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, ^w“Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?” 9 ^xAnd they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”

10 ^yWeep not for him who is dead,
nor grieve for him,
^zbut 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 ^aawho went away from this place: “He shall return here no more, 12 but ^abin the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.”

13 ^ac“Woe to him who builds his house by ^adunrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by injustice,
^aewho 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 ^afpainting it with vermilion.
15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and ^agdo justice and righteousness?
^ahThen it was well with him.
16 ^aiHe judged the cause of the poor and needy;
^ajthen it was well.
Is not this ^akto know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
^alfor shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

^am“They shall not lament for him, saying,
^an‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
^ao‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey ^aphe 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 ^aqAbarim,
for all ^aryour lovers are destroyed.
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
^asThis has been your way from ^atyour youth,
that you have not obeyed my voice.
22 ^auThe wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and ^avyour lovers shall go into captivity;
^awthen you will be ashamed and confounded
because of all your evil.
23 O inhabitant of ^axLebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
^aypain as of a woman in labor!”
24 ^az“As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were ^bathe signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25 and ^bbgive you ^bcinto 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 ^bdI will hurl you and ^bethe 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 ^bfConiah a despised, broken pot,
a ^bgvessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a ^bhland that they do not know?
29 ^biO land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord!
30 Thus says the Lord:
“Write this man down as ^bjchildless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
^bkfor none of his offspring shall succeed
^blin sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.”