22 ²⁴ "As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 22 ²⁵ and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 22 ²⁶ I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 22 ²⁷ But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return."

22 ²⁸ Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot,
a vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a land which they do not know?
22 ²⁹ O land, land, land,
hear the word of Yahweh!
22 ³⁰ Thus says Yahweh:
"Write this man down as childless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days;
for none of his offspring shall succeed
in sitting on the throne of David,
and ruling again in Judah."