Jeremiah 22:21-30 ▼

21 I spoke to you in your prosperity, you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This is your way from your youth, that you would not listen to My voice.

22 The wind will shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity; surely then you will feel shame and be humiliated from all your evil.

23 O dweller of Lebanon, nesting in the cedars—how you will groan when pains come upon you, writhing like a woman in labor!”

24 “As I live,” a declaration of YHWH, “Even If Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet from there I would tear you off,

25 and I would give you into the hand of those seeking your soul, and into the hand of those whose face you fear, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans!

26 And I will cast you out—and your mother who gave birth to you—upon another land, where you were not born there; and there you? shall die.

27 And upon the land to which they are lifting up their souls to return there, to there they shall not return.

28 Is this man Coniah a despised and broken vessel, or a vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and cast into a land that they do not know?

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of YHWH!

30 Thus says YHWH: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; indeed, none of his seed shall prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule anymore in Judah.”