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Jeremiah 22:20-30
The Fate of Jerusalem. (Jr.22.20-23)
20 'Climb the Lebanon range and shriek,
raise your voice in Bashan,
shriek from the Abarim,
for all your lovers have been ruined! 21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, 'I will not listen!'
From your youth this has been how you behaved,
refusing to listen to my voice. 22 The wind will shepherd all your shepherds away
and your lovers will go into captivity.
Then you will blush deep with shame
at the thought of all your wickedness. 23 You who have made the Lebanon your home
and made your nest among the cedars,
how you will groan when anguish overtakes you,
pangs like those of a woman in labour!
God's judgement on Jehoiakim. (Jr.22.24-30)
24 'As I live, Yahweh declares, even if Coniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, I would still wrench you off! 25 I shall hand you over to those determined to kill you, to those you dread, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to the Chaldaeans. 26 I shall hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country; you were not born there but you will both die there. 27 They will not return to the country to which they desperately long to return.'
28 Is he a shoddy broken pot,
this man Coniah,
a crock that no one wants?
Why are he and his offspring ejected,
hurled into a country they know nothing of? 29 O land, land, land,
listen to the word of Yahweh! 30 Yahweh says this,
'List this man as: Childless;
a man who made a failure of his life,
since none of his offspring will succeed
in occupying the throne of David,
or ruling in Judah again.'
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