13 "Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,
his upper rooms by injustice,
making his countrymen work for nothing,
not paying them for their labor. |
14 He says, 'I will build myself a great palace
with spacious upper rooms.'
So he makes large windows in it,
panels it with cedar
and decorates it in red. |
15 "Does it make you a king
to have more and more cedar?
Did not your father have food and drink?
He did what was right and just,
so all went well with him. |
16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy,
and so all went well.
Is that not what it means to know me?"
declares the LORD . |
17 "But your eyes and your heart
are set only on dishonest gain,
on shedding innocent blood
and on oppression and extortion." |
18 Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: |
19 He will have the burial of a donkey-
dragged away and thrown
outside the gates of Jerusalem." |
