Jeremiah 22:23

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21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not hear.’
^aThis has been your manner from your youth,
That you did not obey My voice.

22 The wind shall eat up all ^ayour rulers,
And your lovers shall go into captivity;
Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated
For all your wickedness.

23 O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like ^athe pain of a woman in labor?

Message to Coniah

24 “As I live,” says the Lord, ^a“though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, ^bwere the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off;

25 ^aand 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 the¹ Chaldeans.

26 ^aSo 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 “Is this man¹ Coniah a despised, broken idol—
^aA vessel in which is no pleasure?
Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know?

29 ^aO earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!

30 Thus says the Lord:
‘Write this man down as ^achildless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For ^bnone of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”

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Barnes' Notes

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Jeremiah 22:23

Lebanon is the usual metaphor for anything splendid. and is here put for Jerusalem, but with special reference to the kings whose pride it was to dwell in palaces roofed with cedar Jeremiah 22:14.

How gracious shalt thou be - Or, How wilt thou groan!

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 22:23:

2 Samuel 7:7
Psalms 18:4
Psalms 48:6
Isaiah 10:34
Isaiah 13:8
Isaiah 26:17
Daniel 4:10
Habakkuk 2:17
Acts 2:24

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