Daily Bible GNT October 10 Verses

¹¹The LORD says concerning Josiah's son Joahaz, who succeeded his father as king of Judah, "He has gone away from here, never to return. ¹²He will die in the country where they have taken him, and he will never again see this land."

Jeremiah's Message concerning Jehoiakim

¹³Doomed is the one who builds his house by injustice

and enlarges it by dishonesty;

who makes his people work for nothing

and does not pay their wages.

¹⁴Doomed is the one who says,

"I will build myself a mansion

with spacious rooms upstairs."

So he puts windows in his house,

panels it with cedar,

and paints it red.

¹⁵Does it make you a better king

if you build houses of cedar,

finer than those of others?

Your father enjoyed a full life.

He was always just and fair,

and he prospered in everything he did.

¹⁶He gave the poor a fair trial,

and all went well with him.

That is what it means to know the LORD.

¹⁷But you can only see your selfish interests;

you kill the innocent

and violently oppress your people.

The LORD has spoken.

¹⁸So then, the LORD says about Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah,

"No one will mourn his death or say,

'How terrible, my friend, how terrible!'

No one will weep for him or cry,

'My lord! My king!'

¹⁹With the funeral honors of a donkey,

he will be dragged away

and thrown outside Jerusalem's gates."

Jeremiah's Message about the Fate of Jerusalem

²⁰People of Jerusalem, go to Lebanon and shout,

go to the land of Bashan and cry;

call out from the mountains of Moab,

because all your allies have been defeated.

²¹The LORD spoke to you when you were prosperous,

but you refused to listen.

That is what you've done all your life;

you never would obey the LORD.

²²Your leaders will be blown away by the wind,

your allies taken as prisoners of war,

your city disgraced and put to shame

²³You rest secure among the cedars brought from Lebanon;

but how pitiful you'll be when pains strike you,

pains like those of a woman in labor.

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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