22. The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confoundedbecause of all your evil.
23. O inhabitant of Lebanon,nested among the cedars,how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!”
24. “As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off
25. and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26. I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.
27. But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”
28. Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot,a vessel no one cares for?Why are he and his children hurled and castinto a land that they do not know?
29. O land, land, land,hear the word of the Lord!
30. Thus says the Lord:“Write this man down as childless,a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of Davidand ruling again in Judah.”