“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness?
Then it was well with him.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well.
Wasn’t this to know me?”
says the LORD.
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’