Berean Standard Bible

Jeremiah 22:20-30

20Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.

21I warned you when you were secure.You said, ‘I will not listen.’This has been your way from youth,that you have not obeyed My voice.22The wind will drive away all your shepherds,and your lovers will go into captivity.Then you will be ashamed and humiliatedbecause of all your wickedness.23O inhabitant of Lebanon,1nestled in the cedars,how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you,agony like a woman in labor.”

24“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah2 son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off. 25In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.3 26I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die. 27You will never return to the land for which you long.”

28Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot,a jar that no one wants?Why are he and his descendants hurled outand cast into a land they do not know?29O land, land, land,hear the word of the LORD!

30This is what the LORD says:

“Enroll this man as childless,a man who will not prosper in his lifetime.None of his descendants will prosperto sit on the throne of Davidor to rule again in Judah.”

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 22:23 That is, the palace in Jerusalem; see 1 Kings 7:2. ↩
2. Jeremiah 22:24 Coniah is a variant of Jehoiachin; also in verse 28. ↩
3. Jeremiah 22:25 That is, the Babylonians ↩

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