1Thus said the Lord: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

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Jeremiah 34:2, Jeremiah 34:2, Hosea 5:1, Mark 6:18, Amos 7:13

2Say, 'Hear the word of the Lord, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.

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Luke 1:32, Luke 1:32, Jeremiah 22:4, Isaiah 1:10, Isaiah 9:7

3Thus says the Lord: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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Jeremiah 21:12, Jeremiah 21:12, Micah 6:8, Jeremiah 22:17, Micah 6:8

4For 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.

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Jeremiah 17:25, Jeremiah 17:25

5But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation."

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Amos 6:8, Amos 6:8, Hebrews 6:13, Jeremiah 17:27, Genesis 22:16

6For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: "You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.

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Isaiah 6:11, Psalms 107:34, Isaiah 6:11, Psalms 107:34, Micah 3:12

7I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

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Isaiah 10:33, Isaiah 10:34, Jeremiah 4:6, Jeremiah 4:7, Isaiah 37:24

8Many 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?'

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1 Kings 9:8, 1 Kings 9:9, 1 Kings 9:8, 1 Kings 9:9, 2 Chronicles 7:20

9Then they shall answer, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.'

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2 Kings 22:17, 2 Chronicles 34:25, 2 Kings 22:17, 2 Chronicles 34:25, Deuteronomy 29:25

10Do not weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country."

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Ecclesiastes 4:2, Jeremiah 22:11, Ecclesiastes 4:2, Jeremiah 22:11, Lamentations 4:9

11For thus says the Lord touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: "He shall not return there any more.

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1 Chronicles 3:15, 1 Chronicles 3:15, 2 Kings 23:34, 2 Chronicles 36:1, 2 Chronicles 36:4

12But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more."

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2 Kings 23:34, 2 Kings 23:34, Jeremiah 22:18, Jeremiah 22:18

13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

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Micah 3:10, Leviticus 19:13, James 5:4, Micah 3:10, Leviticus 19:13

14who says, "I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms," and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

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2 Samuel 7:2, 2 Samuel 7:2, Haggai 1:4, Isaiah 5:8, Isaiah 5:9

15Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

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2 Kings 23:25, 2 Kings 23:25, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:10, Ecclesiastes 10:17

16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me?' says the Lord.

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Jeremiah 9:24, Jeremiah 9:24, Isaiah 1:17, 1 John 2:3, 1 John 2:4

17''But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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Jeremiah 22:3, 2 Peter 2:14, Ezekiel 19:6, 2 Kings 24:4, Jeremiah 22:3

18Therefore thus says 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!'

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1 Kings 13:30, Jeremiah 16:6, 1 Kings 13:30, Jeremiah 16:6, Jeremiah 22:10

19He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 36:30, Jeremiah 36:30, 1 Kings 21:23, 1 Kings 21:24, 1 Kings 21:23

20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.

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Numbers 27:12, Numbers 27:12, Lamentations 1:2, Ezekiel 23:22, Lamentations 1:2

21I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, 'I will not hear.' This has been your way from your youth, that you did not obey my voice.

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Jeremiah 32:30, Jeremiah 32:30, Jeremiah 3:25, Jeremiah 7:22, Jeremiah 7:28

22The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

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Jeremiah 5:30, Jeremiah 5:31, Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:10, Jeremiah 23:1

23Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

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Jeremiah 6:24, Jeremiah 6:24, Jeremiah 4:30, Jeremiah 4:31, Jeremiah 22:6

24As I live," says the Lord, "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;

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Jeremiah 37:1, Jeremiah 37:1, 1 Chronicles 3:16, Song of Solomon 8:6, 1 Chronicles 3:16

25and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 34:20, Jeremiah 34:21, Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 34:20

26I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

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2 Kings 24:15, 2 Kings 24:15, Isaiah 22:17, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 15:4

27But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return."

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Jeremiah 44:14, Jeremiah 44:14, Jeremiah 22:11, Jeremiah 52:31, Jeremiah 52:34

28Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which none delights? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they do not know?

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Psalms 31:12, Hosea 8:8, Psalms 31:12, Hosea 8:8, Jeremiah 48:38

29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 32:1, Deuteronomy 32:1, Micah 1:2, Micah 1:2, Jeremiah 6:19

30Thus says the Lord, "Write this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

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Jeremiah 36:30, Jeremiah 36:30, Psalms 94:20, Matthew 1:11, Matthew 1:16