Jeremiah 22

1 thus to say LORD to go down house: palace king Judah and to speak: speak there [obj] [the] word [the] this

This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,

2 and to say to hear: hear word LORD king Judah [the] to dwell upon throne David you(m. s.) and servant/slave your and people your [the] to come (in): come in/on/with gate [the] these

saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.

3 thus to say LORD to make: do justice and righteousness and to rescue to plunder from hand: power oppressor and sojourner orphan and widow not to oppress not to injure and blood innocent not to pour: kill in/on/with place [the] this

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

4 that if: except if: except to make: do to make: do [obj] [the] word [the] this and to come (in): come in/on/with gate [the] house: palace [the] this king to dwell to/for David upon throne his to ride in/on/with chariot and in/on/with horse he/she/it (and servant/slave his *QK) and people his

For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.

5 and if not to hear: obey [obj] [the] word [the] these in/on/with me to swear utterance LORD for to/for desolation to be [the] house: palace [the] this

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”

6 for thus to say LORD upon house: palace king Judah Gilead you(m. s.) to/for me head: top [the] Lebanon if: surely yes not to set: make you wilderness city not (to dwell *QK)

For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.

7 and to consecrate: prepare upon you to ruin man: anyone and article/utensil his and to cut: cut best cedar your and to fall: fall upon [the] fire

I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.

8 and to pass nation many upon [the] city [the] this and to say man: anyone to(wards) neighbor his upon what? to make: do LORD thus to/for city [the] great: large [the] this

And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’

9 and to say upon which to leave: forsake [obj] covenant LORD God their and to bow to/for God another and to serve: minister them

Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”

10 not to weep to/for to die and not to wander to/for him to weep to weep to/for to go: went for not to return: return still and to see: see [obj] land: country/planet relatives his

Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.

11 for thus to say LORD to(wards) Shallum son: child Josiah king Judah [the] to reign underneath: instead Josiah father his which to come out: come from [the] place [the] this not to return: return there still

For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,

12 for in/on/with place which to reveal: remove [obj] him there to die and [obj] [the] land: country/planet [the] this not to see: see still

but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”

13 woe! to build house: home his in/on/with not righteousness and upper room his in/on/with not justice in/on/with neighbor his to serve for nothing and work his not to give: pay to/for him

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

14 [the] to say to build to/for me house: home measure and upper room be wide and to tear to/for him window my and to cover in/on/with cedar and to anoint in/on/with vermilion

who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

15 to reign for you(m. s.) to contend in/on/with cedar father your not to eat and to drink and to make: do justice and righteousness then pleasant to/for him

Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

16 to judge judgment afflicted and needy then pleasant not he/she/it [the] knowledge [obj] me utterance LORD

He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.

17 for nothing eye your and heart your that if: except if: except upon unjust-gain your and upon blood [the] innocent to/for to pour: kill and upon [the] oppression and upon [the] oppression to/for to make: do

“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”

18 to/for so thus to say LORD to(wards) Jehoiakim son: child Josiah king Judah not to mourn to/for him woe! brother: male-sibling my and woe! sister not to mourn to/for him woe! lord and woe! (splendor his *Qk)

Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’

19 tomb donkey to bury to drag and to throw from further to/for gate Jerusalem

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

20 to ascend: rise [the] Lebanon and to cry and in/on/with Bashan to give: cry out voice your and to cry from Abarim for to break all to love: lover you

Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.

21 to speak: speak to(wards) you in/on/with ease your to say not to hear: hear this way: conduct your from youth your for not to hear: obey in/on/with voice my

I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.

22 all to pasture your to pasture spirit: breath and to love: lover you in/on/with captivity to go: went for then be ashamed and be humiliated from all distress: evil your

The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.

23 (to dwell *Qk) in/on/with Lebanon (to make a nest *Qk) in/on/with cedar what? to sigh in/on/with to come (in): come to/for you pain agony like/as to beget

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”

24 alive I utterance LORD that if: except if: except to be Coniah son: child Jehoiakim king Judah signet upon hand right my for from there to tear you

“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.

25 and to give: give you in/on/with hand: power to seek soul: life your and in/on/with hand: power which you(m. s.) fearing from face of their and in/on/with hand: power Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon and in/on/with hand: power [the] Chaldea

In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.

26 and to cast [obj] you and [obj] mother your which to beget you upon [the] land: country/planet another which not to beget there and there to die

I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

27 and upon [the] land: country/planet which they(masc.) to lift: trust [obj] soul: appetite their to/for to return: return there there [to] not to return: return

You will never return to the land for which you long.”

28 vessel to despise to shatter [the] man [the] this Coniah if: surely yes article/utensil nothing pleasure in/on/with him why? to cast he/she/it and seed: children his and to throw upon [the] land: country/planet which not to know

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

29 land: country/planet land: country/planet land: country/planet to hear: hear word LORD

O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

30 thus to say LORD to write [obj] [the] man [the] this childless great man not to prosper in/on/with day his for not to prosper from seed: children his man: anyone to dwell upon throne David and to rule still in/on/with Judah

This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”