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Jeremiah 22:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Jeremiah 22:21

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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 out. 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 ashamed and 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!

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Jeremiah 22:1

"The LORD said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there:"

Jeremiah 22:2

"‘Hear the LORD’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne—you, your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates."

Jeremiah 22:3

"The LORD says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place."

Jeremiah 22:4

"For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses—they, their servants, and their people."

Jeremiah 22:5

"But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says the LORD, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”"

Jeremiah 22:6

"For the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited."

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