^{15 Ref} Shall 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.

^{16 Ref} He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

^{17 Ref} But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

^{18 Ref} Therefore thus says Yahweh 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 glory!

^{19 Ref} He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.