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.”