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 another message that Yahweh gave [to me]: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and say this to him:

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

‘You are the king of Judah. You are the ruler [MTY], like King David was. You and your officials and your people must listen

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

to what Yahweh says: “Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil things. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here [in Jerusalem] [MTY] those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong).

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

If you obey those commands carefully, there will [always] be some descendant of King David who will be ruling here [MTY] [in Jerusalem]. The king and his officials and other people will ride through the gates of the city in chariots and on horses.

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 refuse to pay attention to those commands, I, Yahweh, solemnly declare, with myself [MTY] as a witness, that this palace 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)

And this is what Yahweh says about the king’s palace: “[I like] this palace, like I like the forests in the Gilead [region] and the mountains in Lebanon. But I will cause this palace to become a desert, a place that no one lives in.

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 summon enemy troops who will destroy this palace; each of their soldiers will use his own tools [to wreck the building]. They will cut into pieces the beautiful big cedar [beams] and throw them into a 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

People from many nations will walk past [the ruins of] this city and say to each other, “Why did Yahweh destroy this city that was [very] great?”

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

And [other] people will reply, “[He did it] because his people stopped obeying the agreement that they had made with Yahweh their God. Instead, they worshiped [DOU] 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

[Yahweh also says, ] “Do not mourn for King [Josiah]; do not cry because he has died. Instead, mourn for [King Jehoahaz, his son], [because] he will be captured and taken to another country, and he will never return to see his own country, [Judah], again.”

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

Jehoahaz became king after his father, King Josiah, [died], but Jehoahaz indeed was captured and taken [to Babylonia]. And this is what Yahweh says about him: “He also will never return [to Judah].

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

He will die in that far-away country and will never see his own country 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

[And Yahweh said to me], “Terrible things will happen to [King Jehoahaz’s brother, King Jehoiakim]. He unjustly [forced men to] build his palace. The rooms on the upper level were built [by men who were forced] unjustly [to do that work]; he forced his neighbors to work for nothing; he did not pay them anything.

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

He said, ‘I will [force my workers to] build a huge beautiful palace with very large rooms and [many] windows. They will cover the walls with [fragrant] cedar panels/timber and paint them bright red.’”

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

But it is certainly not [RHQ] having a beautiful cedar palace that causes a king to be great! Jehoiakim’s father, Josiah, also had [RHQ] plenty of things to eat and drink. But Josiah always did things that are right and just, and that is why God blessed him.

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

Josiah acted justly/fairly and helped poor and needy people, so things went well for him. Yahweh says, “That is [RHQ] the way a person should behave who knows me.

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 [Jehoiakim], you [MTY] are greedy and desire only to obtain things by acting dishonestly. You murder [MTY] innocent people, you oppress poor people, and you treat people cruelly and violently.”

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 Yahweh says about Jehoiakim, the son of King Josiah: “[When he dies], people will not mourn for him. They will not say to each other, ‘It is very sad; we are so sorry!’ The people whom he ruled will not mourn for him, saying, ‘We are sad that our king is dead; we are so sorry that the wonderful things [that happened while he was king are ended].’

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

[When he dies, people will do to] his corpse what they do to a dead donkey; his [corpse] will be dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gates!

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

[You people of Judah], go to [the mountains in] Lebanon and weep, shout in the [mountains of the] Bashan [region], cry out in [the mountains of] Moab, because all your friends [in those areas] have been destroyed.

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

When you were prosperous, I warned you, but you replied, ‘We will not pay attention [to what you say].’ You have been acting like that since you were young; you have never obeyed me.

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

[So, now I will punish] all your leaders; [it will be as though] they have been blown away by the wind. They will be captured [by your enemies] and taken to another country. When that happens, you will [truly] be ashamed and disgraced because of all the wicked things [that you have done].

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

[Now, your king] enjoys living in the cedar rooms in his palace, but [soon] he will be punished, and then he will groan like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby.”

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

Yahweh says this: “Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, as surely as I am alive, [I will punish you]. Even if you were the ring on my finger that shows that I am the king, 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

You are afraid of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his huge army, [because] they are wanting to kill you. I will enable them to capture you.

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 expel you and your mother [from this land], and you will be taken to another country. Neither of you was born there, but you will both die there.

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 this land that you will very much desire to return to.”

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

[Someone said, ] “Jehoiachin will be [RHQ] like a broken pot that is despised and which no one wants. He and his children will be (exiled/forced to go) to a foreign land.

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

[I want] the people in this land to listen carefully to this message from Yahweh.”

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 Yahweh says: “[In the record about the kings of Judah, ] write down that [it will be as though] this man [Jehoiachin] had no children, and that he has not been successful during his life, because none of his children/descendants will [ever] become king to rule over [the people of] Judah.”