Jeremiah 22:13–18

¹³Woe to the one who builds his house without righteousness,

and his upper rooms without justice.

His fellow countryman, he works for nothing,

and he does not give to him his wages.^h

¹⁴Who says ‘I will build for myself

a spacious house with large upper rooms,’

and he cuts windows for it,

and it isⁱ paneled with cedar,

and he paints it^j with vermilion.

¹⁵Do you reign as king because you are competing in cedar?

Did not your father eat and drink,

and he did justice and righteousness,

then it was well with him?

¹⁶He judged the legal cause of the needy and the poor,

and then it was well.

Is that not what it means to know me?^k” declares^l Yahweh.

¹⁷“But there is nothing in your eyes and your heart

except^m your unlawful gain,

and on shedding the blood of the innocent,

and on committing oppression and extortion.”

¹⁸Thereforeⁿ thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah:

“They will not lament for him,

‘Alas, my brother,’ or ‘Alas, sister.’

They will not lament for him,

‘Alas, lord,’ or ‘alas, his majesty.’