17. But your eyes and heart are set on nothingexcept your own gain,On shedding innocent bloodand practicing oppression and extortion.
18. Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:They shall not lament him,“Alas! my brother”; “Alas! sister.”They shall not lament him,“Alas, Lord! alas, Majesty!”
19. The burial of a donkey he shall be given,dragged forth and cast outbeyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20. Climb Lebanon and cry out,in Bashan lift up your voice;Cry out from Abarim,for all your lovers are crushed.
21. I spoke to you when you were secure,but you answered, “I will not listen.”This has been your way from your youth,not to listen to my voice.
22. The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,your lovers shall go into exile.Surely then you shall be ashamed and confoundedbecause of all your wickedness.
23. You who dwell on Lebanon,who nest in the cedars,How you shall groan when pains come upon you,like the pangs of a woman in childbirth!
24. As I live—oracle of the Lord—even if you, Coniah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would snatch you off.
25. I will hand you over to those who seek your life, to those you dread: Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans.
26. I will cast you out, you and the mother who bore you, into a land different from the land of your birth; and there you will die;
27. Neither shall return to the land for which they yearn.
28. Is this man Coniah a thing despised, to be broken,a vessel that no one wants?Why are he and his offspring cast out?why thrown into a land they do not know?
29. O land, land, land,hear the word of the Lord—