Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

‘People will not weep when he dies.
    They will not say, “I am very sad, my brother.
    I am very sad, my sister.”
They will not weep and say,
    “What a terrible thing has happened!
    Our great king has died!”
¹⁹ Instead, they will bury him like a dead donkey.
They will pull his dead body to the city's gate.
    They will throw it on the ground outside Jerusalem.’

²⁰ ‘Go up to Lebanon and cry aloud.^[a]
    Shout loudly in Bashan.
    Cry aloud from the mountains of Moab.
The nations that were your lovers
    have lost their power.
²¹ When you were feeling strong and safe,
    I warned you that this would happen.
But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.”
You have been like that since you were young.
    You have never obeyed me.
²² Your leaders will all disappear,
    as if a strong wind had blown them away.
Enemies will take your friends away as prisoners.
Then you will feel very ashamed,
    because of all the wicked things that you have done.
²³ You live safely in beautiful houses
    that are made from Lebanon's cedar wood.
But when I punish you, you will cry out with pain.
    You will feel pain like a woman who is having a baby.’

²⁸ This man Jeconiah will be like a broken pot.
    It is a clay pot that nobody wants any more.
He and his children will go as prisoners to a foreign country.
    They will live in a country that they do not know.
Why will that happen to them?
²⁹ Listen, people of this land! Listen, people of Judah!
    Listen to the Lord's message!

‘Write this man's name on the list.
    Write it as the name of a man who has no children.^[b]
    He will not have success in his life.
None of his sons will rule as a descendant of King David.
    None of them will be king of Judah.’