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24 “As I live,” declares[a] Yahweh, “surely if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were the seal on my right hand, surely from there I would wrench you off. 25 And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those from whom you are frightened by their presence, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will throw you and your mother who gave birth to you to another country where you were not born, and there you will die. 27 As for the land to which they are longing[b] to return, they will not return.

28 Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel?
    Or a vessel in which there is no delight?
Why are he and his offspring thrown far,
    and cast away to the land that they do not know?”

29 O land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh. 30 Thus says Yahweh:

“Record this man as childless,
    a man who will not succeed in his days,
for no man from his offspring will succeed him,[c]
    sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:24 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 22:27 Literally “lifting their inner self”
  3. Jeremiah 22:30 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

24 As I live, saith Jehovah, though [a]Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; 25 and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. 27 But to the land whereunto [b]their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken [c]vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not? 29 O [d]earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah. 30 Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:24 In 24:1 and 1 Chr. 3:16, Jeconiah. In 2 Kin. 24:6, 8, Jehoiachin.
  2. Jeremiah 22:27 Hebrew they lift up their soul.
  3. Jeremiah 22:28 Or, pot
  4. Jeremiah 22:29 Or, land