Jeremiah 22:24-30
International Standard Version
An Oracle against Jehoiachin
24 “As certainly as I’m alive and living,” declares the Lord, “even if Jehoiakim’s son King Jehoiachin[a] of Judah were a signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off 25 and give you to those who are trying to kill you, whom you fear—that is, to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Chaldeans. 26 I’ll hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land where you were not born, and there you will die. 27 As for the land to which you[b] want to return, you[c] won’t return there!
28 “Is this man Jehoiachin[d] a despised and shattered jar,
a vessel no one wants?
Why were he and his descendants hurled away,
thrown into a land that they didn’t know?
29 Land, land, land,
listen to this message from the Lord!
30 This is what the Lord says:
‘Write this man off as childless,
a man who does not prosper in his lifetime.[e]
None of his descendants will succeed
in sitting on the throne of David,
or ever ruling in Judah again.’”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 22:24 Lit. Coniah
- Jeremiah 22:27 Lit. they
- Jeremiah 22:27 Lit. they
- Jeremiah 22:28 Lit. Coniah
- Jeremiah 22:30 Lit. in his days
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