14. who says: “I will build myself a big house with spacious rooms and cut out my windows for it, and panel it with cedar, and paint it with vermilion!
15. Did you become king just to be striving with cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.
16. He pled the case of the poor and weak, so it went well. Is not this knowledge of Me?” It is a declaration of Adonai.
17. “But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”
18. Therefore thus says Adonai about Jehoiakim son of King Josiah of Judah: “They will not lament for him, ‘Oy , my brother!’ or ‘Oy , sister!’ They will not lament for him, ‘Oy , master!’ or ‘Oy , his majesty!’
19. With a donkey’s burial will he be buried, dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.