These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 22
Tanakh 30 verses
- 1 Thus said : Go down to the house of the of , and speak there this ,
- 2 and say: Hear the of , O of , that sittest upon the throne of , thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates.
-
3
Thus saith : Execute ye justice and , 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 in this place.
Cross references (35)
Jeremiah 21:12 Jeremiah 22:17 Micah 6:8 Ezekiel 22:7 2 Samuel 23:3 Proverbs 23:10 Joel 3:19 Jeremiah 7:5-6 Zechariah 7:9-11 Jeremiah 26:16 Psalm 68:5 Psalm 94:6 Psalm 72:2-4 Deuteronomy 27:19 Proverbs 6:17 Jeremiah 5:28 Deuteronomy 25:1 Psalm 94:21 Deuteronomy 24:7 Job 22:9 Exodus 22:22 Exodus 23:6-9 Deuteronomy 10:18 Leviticus 19:15 James 1:27 Deuteronomy 16:18-20 Job 24:9 2 Kings 24:4 Jeremiah 9:24 Job 29:7-17 Malachi 3:5 Micah 3:11 Isaiah 1:23 Isaiah 1:15-20 Deuteronomy 19:10-13 -
4
For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of , riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
Cross references (1)
- 5 But if ye will not these words, I swear by Myself, saith , that this house shall become a desolation.
-
6
For thus saith concerning the house of the of : Thou art unto Me, The head of Lebanon; Yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, Cities which are not inhabited.
Cross references (19)
- 7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, Every one with his weapons; And they shall cut down thy choice cedars, And cast them into the fire.
- 8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour: ‘Wherefore hath done thus unto this great city?’
-
9
Then they shall answer: ‘Because they forsook the of their , and worshipped other Elohims, and served them.’
Cross references (6)
- 10 Weep ye not for the dead, Neither bemoan him; But weep sore for him that goeth away, For he shall return no more, Nor see his native country.
-
11
For thus saith touching Shallum the son of , of , who reigned instead of his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not return thither any more;
Cross references (6)
-
12
but in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
Cross references (2)
- 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, And his chambers by injustice; That useth his neighbour’s service without wages, And giveth him not his hire;
- 14 That saith: ‘I will build me a wide house And spacious chambers’, And cutteth him out windows, And it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
-
15
Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and ? Then it was well with him.
Cross references (30)
2 Kings 23:25 Isaiah 3:10 Proverbs 25:5 Ecclesiastes 10:17 Proverbs 29:4 2 Kings 22:2 Psalm 128:1-2 2 Samuel 8:15 Proverbs 21:3 1 Kings 10:9 Jeremiah 42:6 Jeremiah 21:12 1 Chronicles 3:15 Isaiah 9:7 Isaiah 33:16 Deuteronomy 4:40 Jeremiah 23:5 Acts 2:46 Jeremiah 22:3 Jeremiah 22:18 2 Chronicles 35:12-18 2 Chronicles 34:2 Luke 11:41 1 Corinthians 10:31 Proverbs 31:9 1 Kings 4:20-23 Proverbs 20:28 Ecclesiastes 2:24 2 Chronicles 35:7-8 Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 -
16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; Then it was well. Is not this to Me? saith .
Cross references (22)
-
17
But thine eyes and thy Are not but for thy covetousness, And for shedding innocent , And for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Cross references (25)
Jeremiah 22:3 2 Kings 24:4 2 Peter 2:14 Ezekiel 19:6 Psalm 10:3 Ezekiel 33:31 Colossians 3:5 Joshua 7:21 2 Chronicles 36:8 Mark 7:21-22 Ephesians 5:3-5 Jeremiah 26:22-24 Zephaniah 3:3 Job 31:7 1 John 2:15-16 Romans 1:29 Luke 12:15-21 James 1:14-15 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Exodus 18:21 Psalm 119:36-37 Luke 16:13-14 1 Corinthians 6:10 2 Peter 2:3 1 Kings 21:19 - 18 Therefore thus saith concerning Jehoiakim the son of , of : They shall not lament for him: ‘Ah my brother!’ or: ‘Ah sister!’ They shall not lament for him: ‘Ah lord!’ or: ‘Ah his !’
-
19
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, Drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of .
Cross references (7)
- 20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry, And lift up thy voice in ; And cry from Abarim, For all thy lovers are destroyed.
-
21
I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity, But thou saidst: ‘I will not .’ This hath been thy manner from thy youth, That thou hearkenedst not to My voice.
Cross references (23)
Jeremiah 32:30 Jeremiah 3:25 Isaiah 48:8 Jeremiah 7:22-28 Ezekiel 23:3-39 Proverbs 30:9 Ezekiel 20:8 Nehemiah 9:16-37 Ezekiel 20:13 Deuteronomy 31:27 Jeremiah 36:21-26 Jeremiah 6:16 Jeremiah 2:31 Jeremiah 35:15 Judges 2:11-19 2 Chronicles 33:10 Psalm 106:6-48 Deuteronomy 9:7 Deuteronomy 9:24 Deuteronomy 32:15-20 Ezekiel 20:28 Ezekiel 20:21 2 Chronicles 36:16-17 - 22 The wind shall feed upon all thy shepherds, And thy lovers shall go into captivity; Surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded For all thy wickedness.
- 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, That art nestled in the cedars, How gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, The pain as of a woman in travail!
- 24 As I live, saith , though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim of were the signet upon My right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
-
25
and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar of , and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Cross references (6)
-
26
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bore thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
Cross references (6)
-
27
But to the land whereunto they long to return, thither shall they not return.
Cross references (5)
- 28 Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image? Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, And are cast into the land which they not?
-
29
O land, land, land, Hear the of .
Cross references (8)
-
30
Thus saith : Write ye this man childless, A man that shall not prosper in his days; For no man of his seed shall prosper, Sitting upon the throne of , And ruling any more in .
Cross references (6)