Verse 14
Jeremiah 22:14
World English Bible, British Edition
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who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’
and cuts out windows for himself,
with a cedar ceiling,
and painted with red.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הָ/אֹמֵ֗ר אֶבְנֶה לִּ/י֙ בֵּ֣ית מִדּ֔וֹת וַ/עֲלִיּ֖וֹת מְרֻוָּחִ֑ים וְ/קָ֤רַֽע ל/וֹ֙ חַלּוֹנָ֔/י וְ/סָפ֣וּן בָּ/אָ֔רֶז וּ/מָשׁ֖וֹחַ בַּ/שָּׁשַֽׁר
English Translation
I will build for myself a house of worship and spacious upper rooms, and I will cut windows for it and cover it with cedar and paint it with crimson.
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Chapter 22 Context
1
The LORD said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this
word there:
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2
‘Hear the LORD’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne—you,
your servants, and your people...
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3
The LORD says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who
is robbed out of the hand of...
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4
For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne
will enter in by the gates of...
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5
But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says the LORD,
“that this house will becom...
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6
For the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah:
“You are Gilead to me,
the head of Leba...
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7
I will prepare destroyers against you,
everyone with his weapons,
and they will cut down your choice...
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8
“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his
neighbour, ‘Why has the LORD done t...
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9
Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD
their God (Elohim), worshipp...
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10
Don’t weep for the dead.
Don’t bemoan him;
but weep bitterly for him who goes away,
for he will retu...
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11
For the LORD says touching Shallum the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah h...
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12
But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will
see this land no more.”
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13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
and his rooms by injustice;
who uses his neighb...
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14
who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’
and cuts out windows for himself,
w...
15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink,
and do jus...
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16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
so then it was well.
Wasn’t this to know me?”
says the LO...
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17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness,
for shedding innocent blood,
for oppres...
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18
Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah, king of Judah:
“They won’t lament fo...
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19
He will be buried with the burial of a donkey,
drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
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20
“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out.
Lift up your voice in Bashan,
and cry from Abarim;
for all your love...
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21
I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
This has been your way from yo...
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22
The wind will feed all your shepherds,
and your lovers will go into captivity.
Surely then you will...
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23
Inhabitant of Lebanon,
who makes your nest in the cedars,
how greatly to be pitied you will be when...
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24
“As I live,” says the LORD, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim
king of Judah were the signet on my...
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25
I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into
the hand of them of whom you ar...
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26
I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country,
where you were not born; and...
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27
But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will
not return.”
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28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel?
Is he a vessel in which no one delights?
Why are they c...
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29
O earth, earth, earth,
hear the LORD’s word!
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30
The LORD says,
“Record this man as childless,
a man who will not prosper in his days;
for no more wi...
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