13. “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothingand does not give him his wages,
14. who says, ‘I will build myself a great housewith spacious upper rooms,’who cuts out windows for it,paneling it with cedarand painting it with vermilion.
15. Do you think you are a kingbecause you compete in cedar?Did not your father eat and drinkand do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well.Is not this to know me?declares the Lord.
17. But you have eyes and heartonly for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood,and for practicing oppression and violence.”
18. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19. With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried,dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
20. “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,and lift up your voice in Bashan;cry out from Abarim,for all your lovers are destroyed.
21. I spoke to you in your prosperity,but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth,that you have not obeyed my voice.
22. The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confoundedbecause of all your evil.
23. O inhabitant of Lebanon,nested among the cedars,how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!”
24. “As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off
25. and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.