Chapter 22 – Injustice

Chapter 22 is a lengthy indictment against the injustice being practiced in the nation of Judah. Jeremiah is to speak with, to prophesy to, the king. 
Verses 13 through 17 are a poetic expression of this prophetic utterance. 
The poem is like a walk through a lovely house. God is walking through the house of the king, and the houses of the rich in the land declaring words of judgment: 

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbour serve him for nothing, and does not give him his wages.” 
“Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar?” 
“You have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.” 
It’s a way of saying that God is not impressed by the nice things, the beautiful decorations. If they display who the homeowner is, they display negatively, not positively. 

Once again, the victims of the injustice in the land are listed as, “the refugee, the fatherless and the widow”. 

For this injustice the leaders and guilty people of the nation will be “hurled into another country” where they will die.