1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, 2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: 3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye 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. 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 David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. 5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. 6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. 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 the LORD done thus unto this great city? 9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
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 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: 12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
13 ¶ Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; 14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it . 18 Therefore thus saith 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! 19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20 ¶ Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, 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 makest thy nest 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 the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah 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 whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. 27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. 30 Thus saith the LORD, 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 David, and ruling any more in Judah.
1 haec dicit Dominus descende in domum regis Iuda
et loqueris ibi verbum hoc
2 et dices
audi verbum Domini rex Iuda qui sedes super solium David
tu et servi tui et populus tuus
qui ingredimini per portas istas
3 haec dicit Dominus facite iudicium et iustitiam
et liberate vi oppressum de manu calumniatoris
et advenam et pupillum et viduam nolite contristare
neque opprimatis inique
et sanguinem innocentem ne effundatis in loco isto
4 si enim facientes feceritis verbum istud
ingredientur per portas domus huius reges
sedentes de genere David super thronum eius
et ascendentes currus et equos ipsi et servi et populus eorum
5 quod si non audieritis verba haec
in memet ipso iuravi dicit Dominus
quia in solitudinem erit domus haec
6 quia haec dicit Dominus super domum regis Iuda
Galaad tu mihi caput Libani
si non posuero te solitudinem urbes inhabitabiles
7 et sanctificabo super te interficientem virum et arma eius
et succident electam cedrum tuam
et praecipitabunt in ignem
8 et pertransibunt gentes multae per civitatem hanc
et dicet unusquisque proximo suo
quare fecit Dominus sic civitati huic grandi
9 et respondebunt eo quod dereliquerint pactum Domini Dei sui
et adoraverint deos alienos et servierint eis
10 nolite flere mortuum neque lugeatis super eum
fletu plangite eum qui egreditur
quia non revertetur ultra nec videbit terram nativitatis suae
11 quia haec dicit Dominus ad Sellum filium Iosiae regem Iuda
qui regnavit pro Iosia patre suo
qui egressus est de loco isto non revertetur huc amplius
12 sed in loco ad quem transtuli eum ibi morietur
et terram istam non videbit amplius
13 vae qui aedificat domum suam in iniustitia
et cenacula sua non in iudicio
amicum suum opprimet frustra et mercedem eius non reddet ei
14 qui dicit aedificabo mihi domum latam et cenacula spatiosa
qui aperit sibi fenestras
et facit laquearia cedrina pingitque sinopide
15 numquid regnabis quoniam confers te cedro
pater tuus numquid non comedit et bibit
et fecit iudicium et iustitiam tunc cum bene erat ei
16 iudicavit causam pauperis et egeni in bonum suum
numquid non ideo quia cognovit me dicit Dominus
17 tui vero oculi et cor ad avaritiam
et ad sanguinem innocentem fundendum
et ad calumniam et ad cursum mali operis
18 propterea haec dicit Dominus ad Ioachim filium Iosiae
regem Iuda
non plangent eum vae frater et vae fratres
non concrepabunt ei vae domine et vae inclite
19 sepultura asini sepelietur putrefactus
et proiectus extra portas Hierusalem
20 ascende Libanum et clama et in Basan da vocem tuam
et clama ad transeuntes quia contriti sunt omnes amatores tui
21 locutus sum ad te
in abundantia tua dixisti non audiam
haec est via tua ab adulescentia tua quia non audisti vocem meam
22 omnes pastores tuos pascet ventus
et amatores tui in captivitatem ibunt
et tunc confunderis et erubesces ab omni malitia tua
23 quae sedes in Libano et nidificas in cedris quomodo congemuisti
cum venissent tibi dolores quasi dolores parturientis
24 vivo ego dicit Dominus
quia si fuerit Iechonias filius Ioachim regis Iuda
anulus in manu dextera mea
inde avellam eum
25 et dabo te in manu quaerentium animam tuam
et in manu quorum tu formidas faciem
et in manu Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis
et in manu Chaldeorum
26 et mittam te et matrem tuam quae genuit te
in terram alienam in qua nati non estis ibique moriemini
27 et in terram ad quam ipsi levant animam suam ut revertantur illuc
non revertentur
28 numquid vas fictile atque contritum vir iste Iechonias
numquid vas absque omni voluptate
quare abiecti sunt ipse et semen eius
et proiecti in terram quam ignoraverunt
29 terra terra terra audi sermonem Domini
30 haec dicit Dominus scribe virum istum sterilem
virum qui in diebus suis non prosperabitur
nec enim erit de semine eius vir qui sedeat super solium David
et potestatem habeat ultra in Iuda