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A Message About Jehoiakim

13 Woe to him who builds his house through unrighteousness
and his roof with injustice,
who makes his neighbors work for nothing
and does not pay them,
14 who says, “I will build a huge mansion for myself
    with spacious upper rooms.”
He makes large windows for it,
panels it with cedar,
and paints it red.

15 Does it make you a king when you are extravagant with cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink,
and do what was just and right?
Then it went well for him.

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