Jeremiah 22:1-30 The New Heaven & A New Earth & No More Sorrow

The New Heaven & A New Earth & No More Sorrow

Jeremiah 22:1-30                               The Book of Jeremiah [in Smaller Chunks]

The Lord [says this;] Go down to the house of [Judah's] king, & speak this Word there, & say, You, O king of Judah, [who sits] upon the throne of David, &  your: servants, & people, [who] enter in by these gates, Hear the Word of the Lord.

The Lord [says this;] You, [carry out] judgment, & righteousness, & deliver the [plundered] out of the hand of the oppressor. And [you don't] do [what is:] wrong, & [don't] do [any] violence to the: stranger, fatherless, & widow, & neither [is] [the] blood [of the] innocent shed in this place.

[Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes, Pharisees, & hypocrites! For you pay [the 10%] tithe of mint, anise, & cumin, & have [left out] the [more important] matters of the Law, judgment, [a.k.a. justice,] mercy, & faith. These you [should] have done, & [don't] leave the other [things] undone.]

For if you indeed do this thing, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house: kings sitting upon the throne of David, & he, his servants, & his people riding in chariots, & on horses. *But if you won't hear these Words, I, Myself, swear, [says] the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

[Matthew 23:37-38 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you, [who] kill the prophets & stone [those who] are sent to you. How often, I would have gathered your children together, even [like] a hen gathers her chickens under her wings & you would not! [Look,] your house is left to you desolate. For I say to you, You shall not see Me, [from now on, until] you shall say, Blessed is He, [Who] comes in the Name of the Lord.]

For the Lord [says this] to the king's house of Judah; You [are] Gilead to Me, & the head of Lebanon. [Still,] I will surely make you a wilderness, & [uninhabited] cities. And I will prepare destroyers, everyone with his weapons, against you. And they shall cut down your [best] cedars, & [throw] them into the fire. [Jeremiah 21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit [produced from] your [actions, says] the Lord.]

And many nations shall pass by this city, & every man shall say to his [neighbor, Why has] the Lord done [this,] to this great city? Then, they shall answer, Because they have [abandoned] the Covenant, [a.k.a. contract,] of the Lord their God, & worshiped other gods, & served them. [2 Kings 17:16-18 And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, & made [themselves molded] images, even 2 calves, & made a grove, & worshiped all the host, [a.k.a. stars, & constellations,] of heaven, & served Baal. And they caused their: sons & daughters to pass through the fire, & [they] used divination, & enchantments, & sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. Therefore, the Lord was very angry with Israel, & removed them out of His sight. There [were] none left, [except] only the tribe of Judah.]

[Don't] you weep for the dead, [nor mourn] him: but [severely] weep for him, [who goes] away, & for he shall no [longer] return, nor see his native country. For the Lord [says this about] Shallum, [Josiah's] son, [Judah's] king, [who ruled] instead of Josiah, his father, [who] went out of this place.

He shall not return [there] anymore. But he shall die in the place [where] they have led him captive, & shall no [longer] see this land. Woe, [a.k.a. Distress,] to him, [who builds] his house [through] [what is:] [unrighteous,] & his [rooms] [by what is:] wrong.

[Who uses] his [neighbor's] service, without wages, & [doesn't pay] him for his work. [James 5:4-5 [See,] the [wages] of the  [laborers] who have [harvested] your fields, cry [out, about what] you kept back by fraud. And the [outcries] of [those who] have [harvested, have] entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath. You have lived in pleasure on the earth, & [have] been [thoughtless,] & you have [fattened] your hearts, [like] [fattened animals] [on] the day of slaughter.]

[Who says,] I will build me a [big] house, & large [rooms,] & [cuts himself] out windows, & [panels] it with cedar, painted [it] with vermillion, [a.k.a. red.]

[Shall] you [rule,] because you [enclose] yourself in cedar? Didn't your father eat, drink, & [carry out] judgment, & justice, & then it was well with him? He judged the [case] of the poor, & needy. Then it [went] well with him. The Lord [says,] Wasn't this [what it takes to truly] know  Me?

[Matthew 25:35-40 For I was [hungry,] & you gave Me meat, [a.k.a. food.] I was thirsty, & you gave Me [something to] drink. I was a stranger, & you took Me in, & naked, & you clothed Me. I was sick, & you visited Me. I was in prison, & you came to Me. Then, the righteous shall answer him, saying, Lord, when [did] we [see] You [hungry,] & fed You? Or thirsty, & gave You [something to] drink? When [did] we [see] You a stranger, & took You in? Or naked, & clothed You? Or when [did] we [see] You sick, or in prison, & came to You? And the King shall answer, & say to them, [Truly,] I say to you, In as much as you have done it to one of the least of these, My brethren, You have done it to Me.]

But your: eyes & heart aren't [focused on Me,] but [are only] for: your [greed; shedding] [the] blood [of the] innocent; oppression; & for violence; & [doing] it. [Isaiah 5:13 Therefore, My people [have] gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge, & their [honorable] men are [starving,] & their multitude [are] dried up with thirst.]

Therefore, the Lord [says this about:] Jehoiakim, [Josiah's] son, [Judah's] king; They shall not [mourn] for him, saying, Ah, my brother! Or, Ah sister! They shall not [grieve] for him, saying, Ah, lord! Or, Ah, his glory! He shall be buried with the burial of [a mule] [that pulls carts,] [thrown out,] beyond [Jerusalem's] gates.

[Daniel 1:1-2 In the 3rd year Jehoiakim, [Judah's] king, [ruled,] Nebuchadnezzar, [Babylon's] king, came to Jerusalem, & besieged it, [a.k.a. surrounded around it, & cut it off from supplies.] And the Lord gave Jehoiakim, [Judah's] king into [Nebuchadnezzar's] hand, with part of the vessels [from] the house of God, [that] he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. And [Nebuchadnezzar] brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.]

Go up to Lebanon, & cry [out,] & lift up your voice in Bashan. And cry [out] from the passages, [a.k.a. Abarim,] for all your lovers are destroyed. [Ezekiel 23:7 [Like this,] she committed her [unfaithful] [harlotry] with them, [like] with [all those who] were chosen men of Assyria, & with all [upon] whom, she doted, [a.k.a. showered her affection.] She defiled herself with their idols.]

I [spoke] to you [during] your prosperity; but you [said,] I won't hear, [a.k.a. listen.] That [has] been your [custom] from your youth, that you [don't obey] My voice. [Matthew 23:37-39 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you [who kill] the prophets, & stone [those who] are sent to [warn] you. How often I would have gathered your children together, even [like] a hen [gathers] her chickens under her wings, & you would not! [Look,] your house is left to you desolate. For I say to you, You shall not see Me [after this, until] you shall say, Blessed is He, [Who comes] in the Name of the Lord.]

The wind shall eat up all your pastors, & your lovers shall go into captivity. Then, you [shall] surely be ashamed, & [confused] for all your wickedness.  [Jeremiah 23:1-2 The Lord [says], Woe to the pastors, [a.k.a. shepherds, who] destroy, & scatter the sheep of My pasture! Therefore, the Lord God of Israel [says this,] against the pastors, [who] feed My people; You have scattered My flock, & have driven them away, & haven't visited them. [Watch,] I will visit, [a.k.a. punish,] you [for] the evil of your [actions, says] the Lord.]

O [residents] of Lebanon, [who make] your nest in the cedars, [then,] how gracious [shall] you be when [your] [pains] come upon you, [like] the pain of a woman in [childbirth!] The Lord [says,] As I Live, [if] Coniah, [a.k.a. Jeconiah, Jehoiakim's] son, [Judah's] king, were the signet [ring] upon My right hand, I would [still] pluck you [off from] [there.]

And I will [put] you into the hand of [those who] seek your life, & into the hand of [those] whose face you [fear,] even into the hand of [Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon's] king, & into the hand of the Chaldeans. And I will cast you, & your mother, [who bore] you, out into another country, where you weren't born, & you shall die there.

[2 Kings 24:13-16 And he carried out [from] [there] all the treasures [from] the house of the Lord, & the treasures [from] the king's house, & cut in pieces all the vessels of gold [that] Solomon, king of Israel had made, [that were] in the temple of the Lord, [like] the Lord had [previously] said. And [Nebuchadnezzar] carried away: all Jerusalem, all the princes, all the mighty men of [valor,] even 10,000 captives, & all the craftsmen, & [blacksmiths.] None remained, [except] the poorest sort of people in the land. And he [also] carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon: Jehoiachin, & the: king's mother, king's wives, his officers, & the mighty men of the land, even 7,000 men of [strength,] 1,000 craftsmen, & [blacksmiths,] & all [who] were strong, & [fit] for war, [Babylon's] king brought captive to Babylon.]

But to the land, [in which] they desire to return, they shall not return [there.] Is this man, Coniah [like] a despised broken idol? Is he a vessel, [in which] [there] is no pleasure? [For this reason,] he & his seed, [a.k.a. descendants,] are cast out, into a land [that] they [don't] know.

O earth, earth, earth, hear the Word of the Lord. The Lord [says this,] You, write: This [is a] childless man, [who] shall not prosper [during] his days, [a.k.a. life.] For no man of his seed, sitting on the throne of David, & ruling in Judah, shall prosper anymore.