August 26, 2026, Jeremiah 22:11-30
August 26, 2026, Jeremiah 22:11-30
11 For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who
went away from this place: “He shall return here no more, 12 but in
the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall
never see this land again.”
13 “Woe to him who builds his
house by unrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by
injustice,
who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his
wages,
14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
with spacious upper
rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and painting it with
vermilion.
15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in
cedar?
Did not 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;
then it was well.
Is not this to know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only 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 confounded
because 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. 26 I will hurl you
and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born,
and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to
which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”
28 Is this man Coniah a
despised, broken pot,
a vessel no one cares
for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a land that they
do not know?
29 O land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord!
30 Thus says the Lord:
“Write this man down as childless,
a man who shall not
succeed in his days,
for none of his offspring shall succeed
in sitting on the throne
of David
and ruling again in
Judah.”
As we grow more in love with
God, does our desire to help the needy become stronger? What does it mean to
help the needy and how can we live out God’s desire for us to do so?
Debbie Walker
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