Jeremiah 22:14-16

New Catholic Bible

¹⁴ who says, “I will build myself a spacious home
    with large upper rooms,”
and who inserts windows in it,
    panels it with cedar,
    and paints it with vermilion.
¹⁵ Are you any better a king
    because your cedar is so splendid?
Did not your father have enough to eat and drink?
    But because he did what was right and just,
    all went well with him.
¹⁶ Because he dispensed justice to the poor and needy
    things continued to go well for him.
Is this not what it means to know me?
    asks the Lord.