Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
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14He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.
15Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him.
9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.
10Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.
11For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.
12Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed– he who starts a town by unjust deeds.
13Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.
18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
8Disaster is Coming Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.
9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.
14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.
15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.
18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.
27Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
11Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.
12oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,
13engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.
6The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’
12They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
13“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.
18The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.
16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
1A song of ascents, by Solomon. If the LORD does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the LORD does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.
11Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
13As for the one who repays evil for good, evil will not leave his house.
8The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
8The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.
29The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.
1Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
2They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.
13You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.
6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.
28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
13Materialism Thwarts Enjoyment of Life Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.
12When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”
27The one who is greedy for gain troubles his household, but whoever hates bribes will live.
15He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.
12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.