Jeremiah 22:13–19

¹³Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness

and his upper rooms by injustice,

who makes his neighbors work for nothing

and does not give them their wages,^*

¹⁴who says, “I will build myself a spacious house

with large upper rooms,”

and who cuts out windows^v for it,

paneling it with cedar

and painting it with vermilion.^*

¹⁵Are you a king

because you compete in cedar?

Did not your father eat and drink

and do justice and righteousness?

Then it was well with him.^*

¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy;

then it was well.

Is not this to know me?

says the Lord.^*

¹⁷But your eyes and heart

are only on your dishonest gain,

for shedding innocent blood,

and for practicing oppression and violence.^*

¹⁸Therefore thus says the Lord concerning King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah:

They shall not lament for him, saying,

“Alas, my brother!” or “Alas, sister!”

They shall not lament for him, saying,

“Alas, lord!” or “Alas, his majesty!”^*

¹⁹With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried:

dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.^*