Jeremiah 22:15–17

15 Are you a king because you excel in cedar?

Didn’t your father eat and drink

and administer justice and righteousness?n

Then it went well with him.

16 He took up the case of the poor and needy;o

then it went well.

Is this not what it means to know me?

This is the Lord’s declaration.

17 But you have eyes and a heart for nothing

except your own dishonest profit,

shedding innocent blood

and committing extortion and oppression.p