12. He will die in a distant land and will never again see his own country.”
13. And the lord says, “What sorrow awaits Jehoiakim,who builds his palace with forced labor.He builds injustice into its walls,for he makes his neighbors work for nothing.He does not pay them for their labor.
14. He says, ‘I will build a magnificent palacewith huge rooms and many windows.I will panel it throughout with fragrant cedarand paint it a lovely red.’
15. But a beautiful cedar palace does not make a great king!Your father, Josiah, also had plenty to eat and drink.But he was just and right in all his dealings.That is why God blessed him.