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?
29. Earth, earth, earth,hear the word of the Lord!