22. The wind will blow away all your shepherds,and your lovers will go into captivity.Then you will be ashamed and disgraced by all your wickedness.
23. You live in Lebanon and have your nest in the cedars.But you will groan when pain strikes you,pain like a woman giving birth to a child.
24. “As I live,” declares the Lord, “even though you, Jehoiakin, son of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, are the signet ring on my right hand, I will pull you off my hand.
25. I will hand you over to those who want to kill you, those you fear—King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonians.
26. I will throw you and your mother into another land. You weren’t born there, but you will die there.
27. You will want to return to this land, but you won’t be allowed to come home.”
28. This Jehoiakin is like a rejected and broken pot that no one wants.Is that why he and his descendants will be thrown outand cast into another land they’ve never heard of?
29. O land, land, land!Listen to the word of the Lord.