A Warning to Coniah

24 “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah[fn] son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off. 25 In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.[fn] 26 I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die. 27 [You] will never return to the land for which [you] long

28 Is this man Coniah a despised [and] shattered pot, a jar that no one wants Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

30 This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”