1Thus says the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak this word there.2Say: Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah who sits on the throne of David—you and your servants and your people who enter these gates.3Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, rescue the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, and do not oppress the sojourner, the orphan, or the widow; do not injure them, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.4If you do this word, then kings sitting on the throne of David shall enter the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses—he and his servant and his servants and his people.5But if you do not hear these words, I have sworn by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.6For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are to me Gilead, the head of Lebanon; if I do not make you a wilderness, cities not inhabited.7I will consecrate destroyers against you, each with his articles, and they will cut down your finest cedars and cast them into the fire.8Many nations will pass by this city, and each person will say to his neighbor: Why has the LORD done this to this great city?9They will answer: Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.10Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him; weep bitterly for the one who goes, for he will not return again to see the land of his birth.11For thus says the LORD to Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigns in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will not return there again.12In the place where they have exiled him, he will die, and he will never again see this land.13Woe to the one who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his neighbor labor without pay and does not give him his wages.14He says: I will build myself a spacious house with wide upper rooms, and I will cut out windows for it, panel it with cedar, and paint it with vermilion.15Will you reign because you vie with cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.16He judged the cause of the afflicted and the needy; then it went well. Is this not the knowledge of me? declares the LORD.17For your eyes and your heart are set on nothing but unjust gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on practicing oppression and extortion.18Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not mourn for him, saying, Woe, my brother! or Woe, my sister! They will not mourn for him, saying, Woe, lord! or Woe to his splendor!19He will be buried with the burial of a donkey—dragged away and thrown beyond the gates of Jerusalem.20Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been shattered.21I spoke to you in your time of ease, but you said, I will not listen. This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.22All your shepherds will be driven by the wind, and your lovers will go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your evil.23You who dwell in Lebanon, who nest among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pain and agony come upon you like a woman in labor!24As I live, declares the LORD, even if Coniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet on my right hand, I would tear you off from there.25I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life and into the hand of those you fear, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.26I will hurl you and your mother who bore you into another land where you were not born, and there you will die.27They will never return to the land for which they long with their whole being.28Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel with no pleasure in it? Why then are he and his seed hurled and cast upon the land they do not know?29O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD.30Thus says the LORD: Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for none of his seed will prosper, sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.