Jeremiah 22 (NKJV)

¹ Thus says the Lord: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word, ² and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates! ³ Thus says the Lord: “Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. ⁴ For if you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David. ⁵ But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself,” says the Lord, “that this house shall become a desolation.” ’ ” ⁶ Cities which are not inhabited. ⁷ And cast them into the fire. ⁸ And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, ‘Why has the Lord done so to this great city?’ ⁹ Then they will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.’ ” ¹⁰ Nor see his native country. ¹¹ For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went from this place: “He shall not return here anymore, ¹² but he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. ¹³ And gives him nothing for his work, ¹⁴ And painting it with vermilion.’ ¹⁵ Then it was well with him. ¹⁶ Was not this knowing Me?” says the Lord. ¹⁷ And practicing oppression and violence.” ¹⁸ Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’ ¹⁹ Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem. ²⁰ For all your lovers are destroyed. ²¹ That you did not obey My voice. ²² For all your wickedness. ²³ Like the pain of a woman in labor? ²⁴ “As I live,” says the Lord, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off; ²⁵ and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear—the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die. ²⁷ But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return. ²⁸ And cast into a land which they do not know? ²⁹ Hear the word of the Lord! ³⁰ And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”