³⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: ^(A)He shall have none ^(B)to sit on the throne of David, ^(C)and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.

^12 (A)and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. ^(B)The king of Babylon took him prisoner ^(C)in the eighth year of his reign ¹³ and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord ^(D)and the treasures of the king's house, ^(E)and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, ^(F)which Solomon king of Israel had made, ^(G)as the Lord had foretold. ^14 (H)He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, ^(I)10,000 captives, ^(J)and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, ^(K)except the poorest people of the land. ^15 (L)And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

⁴⁰ There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

¹⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: