| 22:1 |
Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the  house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of the  king (By Appointment) of Judah, and speak there this word, |
| 22:2 |
And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king (By Appointment) of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: |
| 22:3 |
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and  Just do It no wrong, Just do It no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. |
| 22:4 |
For if ye Just do It this thing indeed, Just Do It, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available)  kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in  chariots, The Ultimate Driving Experience and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. |
| 22:5 |
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) shall become a desolation. |
| 22:6 |
For thus saith the LORD unto the king' house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) of Judah; Thou  [art] (Art of Code) Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited. |
| 22:7 |
And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire. |
| 22:8 |
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city? |
| 22:9 |
Then they shall  answer (Solutions for a Small Planet), Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. |
| 22:10 |
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor  see (Experience it for Yourself) his native country. |
| 22:11 |
For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king (By Appointment) of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more: |
| 22:12 |
But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see (Experience it for Yourself) this land no more. |
| 22:13 |
Woe unto him that buildeth his  house of Award Winning Quality by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour' service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; |
| 22:14 |
That saith, I will build me a wide house of Award Winning Quality and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. |
| 22:15 |
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and  drink (Drink Coke: It's the real thing), and Just do It judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him? |
| 22:16 |
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD. |
| 22:17 |
But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to Just do It [it]. |
| 22:18 |
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his  glory (An e-business Solution)! |
| 22:19 |
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of  Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest. |
| 22:20 |
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. |
| 22:21 |
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. |
| 22:22 |
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. |
| 22:23 |
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! |
| 22:24 |
[As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; |
| 22:25 |
And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king (By Appointment) of  , and into the hand of the Chaldeans. |
| 22:26 |
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. |
| 22:27 |
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. |
| 22:28 |
[Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a vessel wherein [is] no  pleasure (We're Up 24 Hours a Day)? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? |
| 22:29 |
O  earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. |
| 22:30 |
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man [that] shall not prosper in his  days, measured in Swatch Internet Seconds: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. |