A Lament Over Israel’s Princes

19 “Take up a lament^(A) concerning the princes^(B) of Israel

² “Son of man, take up a lament^(A) concerning Tyre.

¹⁷ Then they will take up a lament^(A) concerning you and say to you:

⁶ Jehoiakim rested^(A) with his ancestors. And Jehoiachin^(B) his son succeeded him as king.

“This is a lament^(C) and is to be used as a lament.”

¹⁰ which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.^(A)

⁵ but the Babylonian^[a] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,^{(A) 6} and he was captured.^(B)

He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah,^(C) where sentence was pronounced on him. ⁷ They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.^(D)

¹² Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered^(A) to him.

In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

³⁴ Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim^(A) son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.^(B)