Verse 17
Jeremiah 22:17
Darby Translation
17
But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין עֵינֶ֨י/ךָ֙ וְ/לִבְּ/ךָ֔ כִּ֖י אִם עַל בִּצְעֶ֑/ךָ וְ/עַ֤ל דַּֽם הַ/נָּקִי֙ לִ/שְׁפּ֔וֹךְ וְ/עַל הָ/עֹ֥שֶׁק וְ/עַל הַ/מְּרוּצָ֖ה לַ/עֲשֽׂוֹת
English Translation
For your eyes and heart are not except for your gain and for the innocent blood to be shed and for the oppression and for the greed to act.
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Chapter 22 Context
1
Thus saith Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
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and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and...
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3
Thus saith Jehovah: Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of t...
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4
For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in through the gates of this house kings sitt...
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5
But if ye will not hear these words, I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall be...
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6
For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art a Gilead unto me, the sum...
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And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down the...
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And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore h...
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9
And they shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God (Elohim), and worsh...
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10
Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him; [but] weep sore for him that goeth away, for he shall ret...
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11
For thus saith Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned instead...
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12
for he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
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13
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice; that t...
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that saith, I will build me a wide house, and spacious upper chambers; and he cutteth out for himsel...
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15
Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgme...
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16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
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17
But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed...
18
Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: They shall n...
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19
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerus...
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20
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and give forth thy voice in Bashan, and cry from [the heights of] Abarim:...
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21
I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy way from...
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22
The wind shall feed on all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into captivity; surely, then shalt...
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23
Thou inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how pitiful shalt thou be when pang...
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24
[As] I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet upo...
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and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them before whom...
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And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not bor...
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And into the land whereunto they lift up their souls to return, thither shall they not return.
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28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vase? a vessel wherein is no delight? Wherefore are they thrown...
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29
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah!
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30
Thus saith Jehovah: Write this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no man o...
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