13. “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,and his rooms by injustice;who uses his neighbour’s service without wages,and doesn’t give him his hire;
14. who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’and cuts out windows for himself;with a cedar ceiling,and painted with red.
15. “Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar?Didn’t your father eat and drink,and do justice and righteousness?Then it was well with him.
16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy;so it was well, then.Wasn’t this to know me?”says the Lord.
17. But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness,for shedding innocent blood,for oppression, and for doing violence.”
18. Therefore the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:“They won’t lament for him,saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’They won’t lament for him,saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’
19. He will be buried with the burial of a donkey,drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
20. “Go up to Lebanon, and cry.Lift up your voice in Bashan,and cry from Abarim;for all your lovers have been 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 didn’t obey my voice.
22. The wind will feed all your shepherds,and your lovers will go into captivity.Surely then you will be ashamedand confounded for all your wickedness.
23. Inhabitant of Lebanon,who makes your nest in the cedars,how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you,the pain as of a woman in travail!
24. “As I live,” says the Lord, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you from there.
25. I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Kasdim.