20. Go up to Lebanon and cry out;raise your voice in Bashan;cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
21. I spoke to you when you were secure.You said, “I will not listen.”This has been your way since youth; indeed, you have never listened to Me.
22. The wind will take charge of all your shepherds,and your lovers will go into captivity.Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your evil.
23. You residents of Lebanon,nestled among the cedars,how you will groan when labor pains come on you,agony like a woman in labor.
24. “As I live,” says the Lord, “though you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would tear you from it.
25. In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Chaldeans.
26. I will hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land, where neither of you were born, and there you will both die.
27. They will never return to the land they long to return to.”
28. Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot, a jar no one wants?Why are he and his descendants hurled outand cast into a land they have not known?