Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah
1 Zedekiah the son of Josiah, kwhom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.
24 “As I live, declares the Lord, though qConiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the rsignet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25 and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, sinto the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 I will hurl you tand the umother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”
28 Is this man Coniah a despised, vbroken pot,
a vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a land that 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 shall not succeed in his days,
for wnone of xhis offspring shall succeed
in sitting on the ythrone of David
and ruling again in Judah.”
