22. Your shepherds will be tossed to the wind,your lovers taken off to exile.Then you will be embarrassed and humiliatedby all your wickedness.
23. You who live in Lebanon,nestled in cedar,who will pity youwhen you are overcome in pain,like that of childbirth?
24. As surely as I live, declares the Lord, even if Coniah, King Jehoiakim’s son from Judah were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still remove you from there.
25. I would hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you dread, even Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar and his army.
26. I will banish you and your mother who bore you to a land far from your native soil, and there the two of you will die.
27. You will never return to the land you long to go back to.