Jeremiah 22:20-30

20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
and lift up your voice in Bashan;
cry out from aAbarim,
for all byour lovers are destroyed.
21I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
cThis has been your way from dyour youth,
that you have not obeyed my voice.
22 eThe wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and fyour lovers shall go into captivity;
gthen you will be ashamed and confounded
because of all your evil.
23O inhabitant of hLebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
ipain as of a woman in labor!”
24 j“As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were kthe signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25and lgive you minto 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 nI will hurl you and othe mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”

28 Is this man pConiah a despised, broken pot,
a qvessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a rland that they do not know?
29 sO land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord!
30Thus says the Lord:
Write this man down as tchildless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
ufor none of his offspring shall succeed
vin sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.”
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