Jeremiah 22:24-30

Common English Bible

²⁴As surely as I live, declares the Lord, even if Coniah,^[a] King Jehoiakim’s son from Judah were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still remove you from there. ²⁵I would hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you dread, even Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar and his army.^[b] ²⁶I will banish you and your mother who bore you to a land far from your native soil, and there the two of you will die. ²⁷You^[c] will never return to the land you^[d] long to go back to.

²⁸Is this man Coniah
    merely a defiled and broken pottery jar
        that no one wants?
Why then have he and his children been hurled out
    and cast into an unfamiliar land?
²⁹Land, land, land,
    hear the Lord’s word:
³⁰The Lord proclaims:
Mark this man as childless;
    he will not prosper during his lifetime.
        None of his children
        will sit on David’s throne
        and rule again in Judah.