"and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates!
'Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
"For if you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David.
For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah: "You [are] Gilead to Me, The head of Lebanon; [Yet] I surely will make you a wilderness, Cities [which] are not inhabited.
For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went from this place: "He shall not return here anymore,
" Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness And his chambers by injustice, [Who] uses his neighbor's service without wages And gives him nothing for his work,
Who says, 'I will build myself a wide house with spacious chambers, And cut out windows for it, Paneling [it] with cedar And painting [it] with vermilion.'
"Shall you reign because you enclose [yourself] in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, And do justice and righteousness? Then [it was] well with him.
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, [Saying,] 'Alas, my brother!' or 'Alas, my sister!' They shall not lament for him, [Saying,] 'Alas, master!' or 'Alas, his glory!'
The wind shall eat up all your rulers, And your lovers shall go into captivity; Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated For all your wickedness.
"and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand [of those] whose face you fear -- the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans.
"Is this man Coniah a despised, broken idol -- A vessel in which [is] no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, And cast into a land which they do not know?
Thus says the LORD: 'Write this man down as childless, A man [who] shall not prosper in his days; For none of his descendants shall prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling anymore in Judah.' "