²⁴“As I live,” declares^s Yahweh, “surely if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were the seal on my right hand, surely from there I would wrench you off. ²⁵And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those from whom you are frightened by their presence, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. ²⁶And I will throw you and your mother who gave birth to you to another country where you were not born, and there you will die. ²⁷As for the land to which they are longing^t to return, they will not return.

²⁸Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel?

Or a vessel in which there is no delight?

Why are he and his offspring thrown far,

and cast away to the land that they do not know?”

²⁹O land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh. ³⁰Thus says Yahweh:

“Record this man as childless,

a man who will not succeed in his days,

for no man from his offspring will succeed him,^u

sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”

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Footnotes

sLiterally “a declaration of”
tLiterally “lifting their inner self”
uHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation