Jeremiah 22:13-15

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Judgment Against King Jehoiakim

¹³“It will be very bad for King Jehoiakim.
    He is doing wrong so that he can build his palace.
He is cheating people so that he can build rooms upstairs.
    He is not paying his own people.
    He is making them work for nothing.

¹⁴“Jehoiakim says,
‘I will build myself a great palace, with huge rooms upstairs.’
So he built it with large windows.
He used cedar wood for paneling, and he painted it red.

¹⁵“Jehoiakim, having a lot of cedar in your house
    does not make you a great king.
Your father Josiah was satisfied to have food and drink.
    He did what was right and fair,
    so everything went well for him.

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