WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.120 Chapter 22. 00:02.240 --> 00:06.760 Thus saith the Lord, Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this 00:06.760 --> 00:11.480 word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the 00:11.480 --> 00:15.140 throne of David thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these 00:15.140 --> 00:15.520 gates. 00:16.340 --> 00:20.880 Thus saith the Lord, Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled 00:20.880 --> 00:24.900 out of the hand of the oppressor, and do no wrong, do no violence to the 00:24.900 --> 00:29.420 stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. 00:30.360 --> 00:33.960 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of 00:33.960 --> 00:38.300 this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on 00:38.300 --> 00:40.800 horses, he and his servants and his people. 00:41.200 --> 00:45.180 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the Lord, 00:45.680 --> 00:47.600 that this house shall become a desolation. 00:48.440 --> 00:52.540 For thus saith the Lord unto the king's house of Judah, Thou art Gilead unto me, 00:53.080 --> 00:57.240 and the head of Lebanon, yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which 00:57.240 --> 00:57.940 are not inhabited. 00:58.920 --> 01:02.020 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons, 01:02.440 --> 01:05.960 and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. 01:06.460 --> 01:10.300 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his 01:10.300 --> 01:13.980 neighbor, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city? 01:14.700 --> 01:19.140 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their 01:19.140 --> 01:21.740 God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. 01:22.800 --> 01:27.520 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him, but weep sore for him that goeth 01:27.520 --> 01:31.660 away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. 01:32.660 --> 01:36.620 For thus saith the Lord touching Shalem, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, 01:37.040 --> 01:40.520 which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this 01:40.520 --> 01:40.900 place. 01:41.440 --> 01:45.740 He shall not return thither any more, but he shall die in the place whither they 01:45.740 --> 01:48.500 have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. 01:49.080 --> 01:53.640 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by 01:53.640 --> 01:58.340 wrong, that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his 01:58.340 --> 01:58.700 work. 01:59.440 --> 02:04.400 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out 02:04.400 --> 02:08.140 windows, and it is sealed with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 02:09.080 --> 02:12.320 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar. 02:13.220 --> 02:16.080 Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? 02:16.520 --> 02:17.720 And then it was well with him. 02:18.460 --> 02:21.860 He judged the cause of the poor and needy, then it was well with him. 02:22.520 --> 02:24.400 Was not this to know me, saith the Lord? 02:25.040 --> 02:29.440 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed 02:29.440 --> 02:32.200 innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence to do it. 02:32.980 --> 02:36.980 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of 02:36.980 --> 02:37.260 Judah. 02:37.960 --> 02:42.080 They shall not lament for him, saying, Our my brother, or Our sister. 02:42.620 --> 02:46.340 They shall not lament for him, saying, Our Lord, or Our his glory. 02:47.000 --> 02:51.440 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates 02:51.440 --> 02:52.100 of Jerusalem. 02:53.140 --> 02:57.760 Go up to Lebanon, and cry, and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the 02:57.760 --> 03:00.460 passages, for all thy lovers are destroyed. 03:01.040 --> 03:05.600 I speak unto thee in thy prosperity, but thou saidst, I will not hear. 03:06.420 --> 03:10.040 This hath been thy manner from thy youth, and thou obeyedst not my voice. 03:10.960 --> 03:14.880 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity. 03:15.880 --> 03:19.140 Surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 03:19.920 --> 03:24.560 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt 03:24.560 --> 03:28.040 thou be when pangs come upon thee, the painers of a woman in travail. 03:29.060 --> 03:34.280 As I live, saith the Lord, though Keniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, 03:34.840 --> 03:38.520 with a signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence. 03:39.020 --> 03:42.640 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of 03:42.640 --> 03:46.620 them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of 03:46.620 --> 03:48.880 Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 03:49.380 --> 03:54.000 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bear thee, into another country, 03:54.400 --> 03:57.320 where ye were not born, and there shall ye die. 03:58.080 --> 04:02.300 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. 04:03.060 --> 04:06.360 Is this man Keniah, a despised broken idol? 04:07.120 --> 04:08.880 Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? 04:09.880 --> 04:14.200 Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they 04:14.200 --> 04:14.700 know not? 04:15.520 --> 04:19.960 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. 04:20.820 --> 04:22.000 Thus saith the Lord. 04:22.780 --> 04:26.980 Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days, 04:27.280 --> 04:30.780 for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, 04:31.120 --> 04:32.300 and ruling any more in Judah.