A Call to Justice for the King

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This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,

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saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.

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This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.

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But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”

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For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.

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I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.

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And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’

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Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”

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