21. Judah, when you were successful, I warned you.But you refused to listen.You have acted like this since you were young.You have not obeyed me.
22. My punishment will come like a storm.And it will blow all your shepherds away.Your friends will be taken away as captives.Then you will really be ashamed.You will be disgraced because of all the wicked things you did.
23. King, you live in your palace.You are cozy in your rooms of cedar.But you will groan when your punishment comes.You will hurt like a woman giving birth to a baby!
24. “As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “I will do this to you, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah: Even if you were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.
25. Jehoiachin, I will give you to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And I will hand you over to the Babylonians. Those are the people you are afraid of because they want to kill you.
26. I will throw you and your mother into another country. Neither of you was born there. But both of you will die there.
27. You will want to come back. But you will never be able to return.”
28. Jehoiachin is like a broken pot someone threw away.He is like something no one wants.Why will Jehoiachin and his children be thrown out?Why will they be thrown into a foreign land?
29. Land, land, land of Judah,hear the word of the Lord!
30. This is what the Lord says:“Write this down about Jehoiachin:He is a man who is to have no children.He will not be successful in his lifetime.And none of his children will be successful.None of his children will sit on the throne of David.They will not rule in Judah.”