21. I spoke to you in your prosperity,But you said, ‘I will not hear.’This has been your manner from your youth,That you did not obey My voice.
22. The wind shall eat up all your rulers,And your lovers shall go into captivity;Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliatedFor all your wickedness.
23. O inhabitant of Lebanon,Making your nest in the cedars,How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,Like the pain of a woman in labor?
24. “As I live,” says the Lord, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off;
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—the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans.
26. So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die.
27. But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.