Jeremiah 21:5-22:30 And I warred with you with a hand stretched out and with an arm of strength, and in anger and in heat and in great wrath.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ And I warred with you with a hand stretched out and with an arm of strength, and in anger and in heat and in great wrath. ⁶ And I struck the inhabitants of this city, and man and beast: in great death they shall die. ⁷ And after this, says Jehovah, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those being left in this city, from death, from the sword, and from famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them seeking their soul: and he smote them with the mouth of the sword; he shall not have compassion upon them, and he shall not spare, and he shall not pity. ⁸ And to this people thou shalt say, Thus said Jehovah, Behold me giving before your face the way of life and the way of death. ⁹ He dwelling in this city shall die. by the sword, and by the famine, and by death: and he going forth and falling to the Chaldeans pressing upon you, shall live, and his soul was to him for booty. ¹⁰ For I set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, says Jehovah: into the hand of the king of Babel shall it be given, and it was burnt with fire. ¹¹ And for the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah: ¹² O house of David, thus said Jehovah, Judge judgment for the morning, and deliver him taken by force from the hand of him oppressing, lest my wrath shall go forth as fire, and burn, and none quenching from the face of the evil of your doings. ¹³ Behold me against thee, thou inhabitress of the valley, rock of the plain, says Jehovah; those saying, Who shall come down against us? and who shall come into our habitations? ¹⁴ And I reviewed over you according to the fruit of your doings, says Jehovah: and I kindled a fire in her forest, and it consumed all round about her. ²² ¹ Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, ² And say, Hear thou the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, sitting upon the throne of David, thou and thy servants, and thy people coming in to these gates: ³ Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place. ⁴ For if doing, ye shall do this word, and kings came into the gates of this house, sitting to David upon his throne, riding in chariots and upon horses, he send his servants and his people. ⁵ And if ye will not bear these words, by myself I sware, says Jehovah, that this house shall be for a desolation. ⁶ For thus said Jehovah, concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon, if I shall not set thee a desert cities not inhabited. ⁷ And I consecrated destroyers against thee, a man and his weapons: and they cut off from the chosen of thy cedars and cast upon the fire. ⁸ And many nations passed through this city, and they said a man to his neighbor, For what did Jehovah thus to this great city? ⁹ And they said, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and they will worship to other gods, and serve them. ¹⁰ Ye shall not weep for the dead, and ye shall not bewail for him: weep ye, weep ye for him going away, for he shall no more turn back and see the land of his nativity. ¹¹ For thus said Jehovah to Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, reigning, instead of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place: He shall no more return there: ¹² For in the place where they carried him captive, there he shall die, and shall no more see this land. ¹³ Wo to him building his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment; by his neighbor he will work gratuitously, and he will give him not for his work; ¹⁴ Saying, I will build to me a house of extension, and airy upper chambers, and he rent to himself windows; and covered with cedar, and painted with red. ¹⁵ Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him? ¹⁶ He judged the judgment of the poor and the needy; then it was well: was this not knowing me? says Jehovah. ¹⁷ For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do. ¹⁸ For this, thus said Jehovah of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They shall not lament for him: Alas, my brother! and, Alas, sister! they shall not lament for him, Alas, lord! and, Alas, the majesty! ¹⁹ He shall be buried the burial of an ass, dragged and cast from beyond the gate of Jerusalem. ²⁰ Go up to Lebanon and cry, and in Basilan thou shalt give thy voice and cry from the passages, for all they loving thee were broken. ²¹ I spake to thee in thy, securities, thou saidst, I will not hear. This thy way from thy youth, for thou heardest not to my voice. ²² The wind shall feed all thy shepherds, and they loving thee shall go into captivity: for then shalt thou be ashamed and disgraced for all thine evil. ²³ Thou dwelling in Lebanon, building a nest in the cedars, how being compassionated in pangs coming to thee the pain as of her bringing forth. ²⁴ I live says Jehovah, for if Coniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, shall be the seal upon my right hand, I will pluck thee off from thence. ²⁵ And I gave thee into the hand of those seeking thy soul, and into the hand of whom thou fearest their face, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and into the hand of the Chaldeans ²⁶ And I cast thee and thy mother who bare thee upon another land where ye were not born there, and there shall ye die. ²⁷ And upon the land where they lift up their soul to turn back there, there they shall not turn back. ²⁸ Is this man Coniah a despised broken earthen vessel? or a vessel no delight in it? wherefore they were cast out, he and his seed, and they were cast upon a land which they knew not ²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah. ³⁰ Thus said Jehovah, Write ye this man destitute, a man shall not prosper in his days: for not a man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling yet in Judah.