Jeremiah 22:13-17
13 a “Woe to him who builds his house by b unrighteousness,and his upper rooms by injustice,
c who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his wages,
14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and d painting it with vermilion.
15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and e do justice and righteousness?
f Then it was well with him.
16 g He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
h then it was well.
Is not this i to know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
j for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
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