20. People of Jerusalem, go to Lebanon and shout,go to the land of Bashan and cry;call out from the mountains of Moab,because all your allies have been defeated.
21. The Lord spoke to you when you were prosperous,but you refused to listen.That is what you've done all your life;you never would obey the Lord.
22. Your leaders will be blown away by the wind,your allies taken as prisoners of war,your city disgraced and put to shamebecause of all the evil you have done.
23. You rest secure among the cedars brought from Lebanon;but how pitiful you'll be when pains strike you,pains like those of a woman in labour.
24. The Lord said to King Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, “As surely as I am the living God, even if you were the signet ring on my right-hand, I would pull you off
25. and give you to people you are afraid of, people who want to kill you. I will give you to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his soldiers.
26. I am going to force you and your mother into exile. You will go to a country where neither of you was born, and both of you will die there.
27. You will long to see this country again, but you will never return.”
28. I said, “Has King Jehoiachin become like a broken jar that is thrown away and that no one wants? Is that why he and his children have been taken into exile to a land they know nothing about?”
29. O land, land, land!Listen to what the Lord has said:
30. “This man is condemned to lose his children,to be a man who will never succeed.He will have no descendantswho will rule in Judahas David's successors.I, the Lord, have spoken.”