Jeremiah 22:13 meaning and explanation
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
Jeremiah 22:13, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah speaks these words from the LORD against King Jehoiakim of Judah, who built himself an elaborate palace while forcing his own people to labor without pay. The Hebrew word for woe, hoy, is a cry of judgment, and the charge is concrete: unpaid wages and forced labor.
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