A Warning to Coniah

“ 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.” 23