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—
30. Thus says the Lord: Write this man down as childless,a man who will never prosper in his life!Nor shall any of his descendants prosper,to sit upon the throne of David,to rule again over Judah.