16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy;then it was well with him.Is not this what it means to know Me?says the Lord.
17. But your eyes and your heartare intent only on your covetousnessand on shedding innocent bloodand on oppression and violence.
18. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not lament for him, saying,“Ah, my brother!” or, “Ah, sister!”They will not lament for him, saying,“Ah, lord!” or, “Ah, his glory!”
19. He will be buried with the burial of a donkey,drawn and cast outbeyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20. Go up to Lebanon and cry out,and lift up your voice in Bashan,and cry out from Abarim,for all your lovers are destroyed.
21. I spoke to you in your prosperity,but you said, “I will not listen!”This has been your manner from your youth,that you have not obeyed My voice.
22. The wind will sweep away all your shepherds,and your lovers shall go into captivity;surely then you will be ashamed and humiliatedfor all your wickedness.
23. O inhabitant of Lebanon,who makes your nest in the cedars,how you will groan when pangs come upon you,the pain as of a woman in labor!
24. As I live, says the Lord, though Koniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet would I pluck you from there.
25. And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life and into the hand of those whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26. I will cast you and your mother that bore you out into another country where you were not born, and there you shall die.
27. But to the land where they desire to return, they will not return there.
28. Is this man Koniah a despised broken jar?Is he a vessel in which is no desire?Why are he and his seed cast outand thrown into a land which they had not known?
29. O land, land, land,hear the word of the Lord!
30. Thus says the Lord:Write down this man childless,a man who will not prosper in his days;for no man of his seed shall prosper,sitting on the throne of Davidand ruling any more in Judah.