Jeremiah travels to the palace of King
Jehoiakim and rebukes him for the exploitation of the poor, and the broad
injustice and political violence during his reign:
“Woe to him who builds his palace
by injustice,
his upper rooms with corruption,
making his own people work for nothing,
not paying them for their labor."
"Do what is just and right.
Rescue from the hand of the
oppressor the one who has been robbed.
Do no wrong,
Nor violence to the foreigner, the
fatherless or the widow,
and do not shed innocent blood in this
place."
