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14 Who says ‘I will build for myself
    a spacious house with large upper rooms,’
and he cuts windows for it,
    and it is[a] paneled with cedar,
    and he paints it[b] with vermilion.
15 Do you reign as king because you are competing in cedar?
    Did not your father eat and drink,
and he did justice and righteousness,
    then it was well with him?
16 He judged the legal cause of the needy and the poor,
    and then it was well.
    Is that not what it means to know me?[c]declares[d] Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:14 Here the subject is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Jeremiah 22:14 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Jeremiah 22:16 Literally “Not that the knowledge me”
  4. Jeremiah 22:16 Literally “a declaration of”