Jeremiah 22:13

Good News Translation

Doomed is the one who builds his house by injustice and enlarges it by dishonesty; who makes his people work for nothing and does not pay their wages.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:4

Neco made Joahaz' brother Eliakim king of Judah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Joahaz was taken to Egypt by Neco.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. He sinned against the Lord his God.

Job 31:39

if I have eaten the food that grew there but let the farmers that grew it starve—

Isaiah 5:8

You are doomed! You buy more houses and fields to add to those you already have. Soon there will be no place for anyone else to live, and you alone will live in the land.

Jeremiah 17:11

The person who gets money dishonestly is like a bird that hatches eggs it didn't lay. In the prime of life he will lose his riches, and in the end he is nothing but a fool.

Jeremiah 22:18

So then, the Lord says about Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah, “No one will mourn his death or say, ‘How terrible, my friend, how terrible!’ No one will weep for him or cry, ‘My lord! My king!’

Leviticus 19:13

“Do not rob or take advantage of anyone. Do not hold back the wages of someone you have hired, not even for one night.

Micah 3:10

You are building God's city, Jerusalem, on a foundation of murder and injustice.

Habakkuk 2:12

You are doomed! You founded a city on crime and built it up by murder.

Malachi 3:5

The Lord Almighty says, “I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners—against all who do not respect me.

Deuteronomy 15:13

When you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed.

James 5:4

You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty.