Jeremiah

¹⁵“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar?Didn’t 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;so it was well, then.Wasn’t this to know me?”says the Lord. ¹⁷But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness,for shedding innocent blood,for oppression, and for doing violence.” ¹⁸Therefore the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:“They won’t lament for him,saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’They won’t lament for him,saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’ ¹⁹He will be buried with the burial of a donkey,drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.” ²⁰“Go up to Lebanon, and cry.Lift up your voice in Bashan,and cry from Abarim;for all your lovers have been destroyed. ²¹I spoke to you in your prosperity;but you said, ‘I will not listen.’This has been your way from your youth,that you didn’t obey my voice.