The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 21:12 (NIV)

This is what the Lord says to you, house of David:

‘“Administer justice every morning;
rescue from the hand of the oppressor
the one who has been robbed,
or my wrath will break out and burn like fire
because of the evil you have done –
burn with no one to quench it.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 21:13 (NIV)

I am against you, Jerusalem,
you who live above this valley
on the rocky plateau, declares the Lord –
you who say, ‘Who can come against us?
Who can enter our refuge?’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 21:14 (NIV)

I will punish you as your deeds deserve,
declares the Lord.
I will kindle a fire in your forests
that will consume everything around you.”’

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:1 (NKJV)
Thus says the LORD: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:2 (NKJV)
and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates!

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:3 (NKJV)

Thus says the Lord: “Execute[a] judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:4 (NKJV)

For if you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 22:5 (NCB)

But if you do not obey these commands, then I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this palace will become a ruin.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 22:6 (NCB)

For thus says the Lord concerning the palace of the king of Judah:

Although you are like Gilead to me,
like a peak of Lebanon,
I swear that I will turn you into a desert,
an uninhabited city.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:7 (NKJV)
I will prepare destroyers against you, Everyone with his weapons; They shall cut down your choice cedars And cast them into the fire.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:8 (NKJV)
And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, ‘Why has the LORD done so to this great city?’

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:9 (NKJV)

Then they will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.’ ”

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:10 (NKJV)

Weep not for the dead, nor bemoan him;
Weep bitterly for him who goes away,
For he shall return no more,
Nor see his native country.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 22:11 (NIV)

For this is what the Lord says about Shallum son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah
but has gone from this place: ‘He will never return.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 22:12 (NIV)

He will die in the place where they have led him captive; he will not see this land again.’

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:13 (NKJV)
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness And his chambers by injustice, Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages And gives him nothing for his work,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:14 (NKJV)
Who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house with spacious chambers, And cut out windows for it, Paneling it with cedar And painting it with vermilion.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 22:15 (CSB)

Are you a king because you excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink and administer justice and righteousness?
Then it went well with him.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 22:16 (CSB)

He took up the case of the poor and needy; then it went well. Is this not what it means to know me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 22:17 (BSB)
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”