17. But you set your eyes and hearton nothing but unjust gain;you spill the blood of the innocent;you practice cruelty;you oppress your subjects.
18. Therefore, this is what the Lord says to Jehoiakim son of Judah’s King Josiah:They won’t grieve for him, saying, "My brother, my sister!"They won’t grieve for him, saying, "My master, my majesty!"
19. They will give him a donkey’s burial,dragging him outside the gates of Jerusalemand dumping him there.
20. Go up to Lebanon and cry out,lift up your voice in Bashan,cry out from Abarim,because all your lovers have been ravished.
21. I spoke to you when you felt safe and secure,but you said, "I won’t listen."You have been that way since your youth:not listening to a word I say.
22. Your shepherds will be tossed to the wind,your lovers taken off to exile.Then you will be embarrassed and humiliatedby all your wickedness.
23. You who live in Lebanon,nestled in cedar,who will pity youwhen you are overcome in pain,like that of childbirth?
24. As surely as I live, declares the Lord, even if Coniah, King Jehoiakim’s son from Judah were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still remove you from there.
25. I would hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you dread, even Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar and his army.
26. I will banish you and your mother who bore you to a land far from your native soil, and there the two of you will die.