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23 It may be nice to live in a beautiful palace
    paneled with wood from the cedars of Lebanon,
but soon you will groan with pangs of anguish—
    anguish like that of a woman in labor.

A Message for Jehoiachin

24 “As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “I will abandon you, Jehoiachin[a] son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. Even if you were the signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off. 25 I will hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you so desperately fear—to King Nebuchadnezzar[b] of Babylon and the mighty Babylonian[c] army.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:24 Hebrew Coniah, a variant spelling of Jehoiachin; also in 22:28.
  2. 22:25a Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar.
  3. 22:25b Or Chaldean.

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