Jeremiah 22:20-30

20Go up to Lebanon and cry out, And raise your voice in Bashan; Cry out also from 1Abarim, For all your 2lovers have been crushed.21I spoke to you in your prosperity; But 3you said, ‘I will not listen!’ 4This has been your way 5from your youth, That you have not obeyed My voice.22The wind will sweep away all your 6shepherds, And your 7lovers will go into captivity; Then you will certainly be 8ashamed and humiliated Because of all your wickedness.23You who live in Lebanon, Nested in the cedars, How you will groan when sharp pains come on you, 9Pain like a woman in childbirth!

24“As I live,” declares the Lord, “even if 1011Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a 12signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull 13you 14off; 25and I will 15hand you over to those who are seeking your life, yes, to those of whom you are frightened, that is, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Chaldeans. 26I will 16hurl you and your 17mother who gave birth to you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die. 27But as for the land to which they long to return, they will not return to it.28Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar? Or is he an 18undesirable vessel? Why have he and his descendants been 19hurled out And cast into a 20land that they had not known?2921O land, land, land, Hear the word of the Lord! 30This is what the Lord says: ‘Write this man down as 22childless, A man who will 23not prosper in his days; For no man among his 24descendants will prosper Sitting on the throne of David Or ruling again in Judah.’”