25. I will hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you so desperately fear—to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the mighty Babylonian army.
26. I will expel you and your mother from this land, and you will die in a foreign country, not in your native land.
27. You will never again return to the land you yearn for.
28. “Why is this man Jehoiachin like a discarded, broken jar?Why are he and his children to be exiled to a foreign land?
29. O earth, earth, earth!Listen to this message from the lord!
30. This is what the lord says:‘Let the record show that this man Jehoiachin was childless.He is a failure,for none of his children will succeed him on the throne of Davidto rule over Judah.’