God will punish King Jehoiachin

24 Yahweh says this: “Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, as surely as I am alive, I will punish you. Even if you were the ring on my finger that shows that I am the king, I would pull you off. 25 You are afraid of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his huge army, because they are wanting to kill you. I will enable them to capture you. 26 I will expel you and your mother from this land, and you will be taken to another country. Neither of you was born there, but you will both die there. 27 You will never return to this land that you will very much desire to return to.”

28 Someone said, “Jehoiachin will be [RHQ] like a broken pot

that is despised and which no one wants.

He and his children will be ◄exiled/forced to go► to a foreign land.

29 I want the people in this land to listen carefully to this message from Yahweh.”

30 This is what Yahweh says:

“In the record about the kings of Judah, write down that it will be as though this man Jehoiachin had no children,

and that he has not been successful during his life,

because none of his children/descendants will ever become king

to rule over the people of Judah.”