20. People of Jerusalem, go up to Lebanon and cry out in mourning.Go to the land of Bashan and cry out loudly.Cry out in mourning from the mountains of Moab.For your allies have all been defeated.
21. While you were feeling secure I gave you warning.But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.”That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward.Indeed, you have never paid attention to me.
22. My judgment will carry off all your leaders like a storm wind!Your allies will go into captivity.Then you will certainly be disgraced and put to shamebecause of all the wickedness you have done.
23. You may feel as secure as a birdnesting in the cedars of Lebanon.But oh how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you.They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.
24. The Lord says, “As surely as I am the living God, you, Jeconiah, king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, will not be the earthly representative of my authority. Indeed, I will take that right away from you.
25. I will hand you over to those who want to take your life and of whom you are afraid. I will hand you over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his Babylonian soldiers.
26. I will force you and your mother who gave you birth into exile. You will be exiled to a country where neither of you were born, and you will both die there.
27. You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!”
28. This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away.He will be like a clay vessel that no one wants.Why will he and his children be forced into exile?Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about?
29. O land of Judah, land of Judah, land of Judah!Listen to what the Lord has to say!
30. The Lord says,“Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless.Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime.For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of Davidor ever succeed in ruling over Judah.”