Daily Bible CEV October 10 Verses

^11-12Jehoahaz became king of Judah after his father King Josiah died. But Jehoahaz was taken as a prisoner to a foreign country. Now I, the LORD, promise that he will die there without ever seeing his own land again.

King Jehoiakim

The LORD told me to say:

^*13King Jehoiakim, you are doomed!

You built a palace with large rooms upstairs.

¹⁴You put in big windows and used cedar paneling

and red paint.

But you were unfair and forced the builders to work

without pay.

^*15More cedar in your palace doesn't make you a better king

than your father Josiah.

He always did right-- he gave justice to the poor

and was honest.

¹⁶That's what it means to truly know me.

So he lived a comfortable life

and always had enough to eat and drink.

¹⁷But all you think about is how to cheat or abuse or murder

some innocent victim.

¹⁸Jehoiakim, no one will cry at your funeral.

They won't turn to each other and ask,

"Why did our great king have to die?"

¹⁹You will be given a burial fit for a donkey;

your body will be dragged outside the city gates

and tossed in the dirt.

I, the LORD, have spoken.

King Jehoiachin and the People of Jerusalem

The LORD told me to say:

²⁰People of Jerusalem, the nations you trusted

have been crushed.

Go to Lebanon and weep;

cry in the land of Bashan and in Moab.

²¹When times were good, I warned you.

But you ignored me, just as you have done

since Israel was young.

²²Now you will be disgraced because of your sins.

Your leaders will be swept away by the wind,

and the nations you trusted will be captured

and dragged to a foreign country.

²³Those who live in the palace paneled with cedar

will groan with pain like women giving birth.

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