24. “As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “I will do this to you, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah: Even if you were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.
25. Jehoiachin, I will give you to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonians. Those are the people you are afraid of. They want to kill you.
26. I will throw you and your mother into another country where neither of you was born. You and your mother will die in that country.
27. Jehoiachin, you will want to come back to your land, but you will never be allowed to come back.”
28. Jehoiachin is like a broken pot that someone threw away. He is like a pot that no one wants. Why will Jehoiachin and his children be thrown out and sent away into a foreign land?
29. Land, land, land of Judah! Listen to this message from the Lord!