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Judgment Against King Jehoiakim

13 “It will be very bad for King Jehoiakim.
    He is doing wrong so that he can build his palace.
He is cheating people so that he can build rooms upstairs.
    He is not paying his own people.
    He is making them work for nothing.

14 “Jehoiakim says,
    ‘I will build myself a great palace, with huge rooms upstairs.’
So he built it with large windows.
    He used cedar wood for paneling, and he painted it red.

15 “Jehoiakim, having a lot of cedar in your house
    does not make you a great king.
Your father Josiah was satisfied to have food and drink.
    He did what was right and fair,
    so everything went well for him.

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13 “Woe(A) to him who builds(B) his palace by unrighteousness,
    his upper rooms by injustice,
making his own people work for nothing,
    not paying(C) them for their labor.
14 He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace(D)
    with spacious upper rooms.’
So he makes large windows in it,
    panels it with cedar(E)
    and decorates it in red.(F)

15 “Does it make you a king
    to have more and more cedar?
Did not your father have food and drink?
    He did what was right and just,(G)
    so all went well(H) with him.

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