1 Thus said the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, Compare verse1 commentary
2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sit on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people that enter in by these gates: Compare verse1 commentary
3 Thus said the LORD; Execute you 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. Compare verse1 commentary
4 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. Compare verse1 commentary
5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, said the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. Compare verse1 commentary
6 For thus said the LORD to the king's house of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. Compare verse2 commentaries
7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. Compare verse1 commentary
8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city? Compare verse1 commentary
9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. Compare verse
10 Weep you not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. Compare verse2 commentaries
11 For thus said 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: Compare verse1 commentary
12 But he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. Compare verse1 commentary
13 Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not for his work; Compare verse3 commentaries
14 That said, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. Compare verse1 commentary
15 Shall you reign, because you close yourself in cedar? did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? Compare verse1 commentary
16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? said the LORD. Compare verse1 commentary
17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. Compare verse1 commentary
18 Therefore thus said 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! Compare verse1 commentary
19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. Compare verse1 commentary
20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all your lovers are destroyed. Compare verse1 commentary
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice. Compare verse1 commentary
22 The wind shall eat up all your pastors, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness. Compare verse1 commentary
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that make your nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail! Compare verse1 commentary
24 As I live, said the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there; Compare verse2 commentaries
25 And I will give you into the hand of them that seek your life, and into the hand of them whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. Compare verse2 commentaries
26 And I will cast you out, and your mother that bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die. Compare verse1 commentary
27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. Compare verse1 commentary
28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? Compare verse1 commentary
30 Thus said the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. Compare verse2 commentaries