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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment Against Wicked Kings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to you, king of Judah, you who sit on David&#8217;s throne&#8212;you, your officials and your people who come through these gates. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But if you do not obey these commands, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the palace of the king of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Though you are like Gilead to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">like the summit of Lebanon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">I will surely make you like a wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">like towns not inhabited.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will send destroyers against you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="content">each man with his weapons,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="content">and they will cut up your fine cedar beams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="content">and throw them into the fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, &#8216;Why has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> done such a thing to this great city?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And the answer will be: &#8216;Because they have forsaken the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God and have worshiped and served other gods.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="content">rather, weep bitterly for him who is exiled,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="content">because he will never return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="content">nor see his native land again.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about Shallum</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:11 </span><span class="ft">Also called </span><span class="fqa">Jehoahaz</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but has gone from this place: &#8220;He will never return. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He will die in the place where they have led him captive; he will not see this land again.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="content">his upper rooms by injustice,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="content">making his own people work for nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="content">not paying them for their labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He says, &#8216;I will build myself a great palace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">with spacious upper rooms.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">So he makes large windows in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">panels it with cedar</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">and decorates it in red.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Does it make you a king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">to have more and more cedar?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">Did not your father have food and drink?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">He did what was right and just,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">so all went well with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He defended the cause of the poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="content">and so all went well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="content">Is that not what it means to know me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;But your eyes and your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="content">are set only on dishonest gain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="content">on shedding innocent blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="content">and on oppression and extortion.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">&#8220;They will not mourn for him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">&#8216;Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">They will not mourn for him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">&#8216;Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He will have the burial of a donkey&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.22.19"><span class="content">dragged away and thrown</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.22.19"><span class="content">outside the gates of Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go up to Lebanon and cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="content">let your voice be heard in Bashan,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="content">cry out from Abarim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="content">for all your allies are crushed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I warned you when you felt secure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="content">but you said, &#8216;I will not listen!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="content">This has been your way from your youth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="content">you have not obeyed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The wind will drive all your shepherds away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="content">and your allies will go into exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="content">Then you will be ashamed and disgraced</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="content">because of all your wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You who live in &#8216;Lebanon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="content">who are nestled in cedar buildings,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="content">how you will groan when pangs come upon you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="content">pain like that of a woman in labor!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;As surely as I live,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;even if you, Jehoiachin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:24 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Koniah, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 28</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I will deliver you into the hands of those who want to kill you, those you fear&#8212;Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another country, where neither of you was born, and there you both will die. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You will never come back to the land you long to return to.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="content">an object no one wants?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="content">Why will he and his children be hurled out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="content">cast into a land they do not know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">O land, land, land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.22.29"><span class="content">hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">&#8220;Record this man as if childless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">a man who will not prosper in his lifetime,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">for none of his offspring will prosper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">none will sit on the throne of David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">or rule anymore in Judah.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Two Baskets of Figs</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After Jehoiachin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Jeconiah, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> asked me, &#8220;What do you see, Jeremiah?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.24.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Figs,&#8221; I answered. &#8220;The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But like the bad figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,&#8217; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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