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12 He will die in the place where they exiled him, and he won’t ever[a] see this land again.’”

An Oracle against Jehoiakim

13 “How terrible for him who builds his house
    without righteousness,
and its upper rooms without justice,
    who makes his neighbor work for nothing,
    and does not pay him his wage.
14 How terrible for[b] him who says, ‘I’ll build a large
    house for myself with spacious upper rooms,
who cuts out windows for it,
    paneling it with cedar and painting it red.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:12 The Heb. lacks ever
  2. Jeremiah 22:14 The Heb. lacks How terrible for