15. Do you think you are a kingbecause you compete in cedar?Did not your father eat and drinkand do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well.Is not this to know me?declares the Lord.
17. But you have eyes and heartonly for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood,and for practicing oppression and violence.”
18. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19. With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried,dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
20. “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,and lift up your voice in Bashan;cry out from Abarim,for all your lovers are destroyed.
21. I spoke to you in your prosperity,but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth,that you have not obeyed my voice.