Jeremiah 22:13-15

The Voice

¹³     Woe to the one^[a] who builds his palace on the proceeds of unrighteousness,
        who adds upper rooms on the gains of injustice,
    Who forces his own people to labor for nothing,
        who refuses to pay them for all their hard work.
¹⁴     He thinks to himself, “I will build a huge palace
        with a large second story and many windows.
    I will panel the walls with the best cedar
        and paint it red to impress everyone.”
¹⁵     Do you become king because you have more cedar than another?
        Your father, so different from you, had plenty to eat, plenty to drink.
    Didn’t he live his life as a righteous and fair man?
        And look how well he did.