Jeremiah 22:24-30

YAHWEH declares, “As surely as I am the living God, listen, O King Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. Even if you were the royal signet ring I wear on my right hand, I would still pull you from my finger. I will hand you over to the power of those who seek your life, into the hands of those you dread—King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonians. I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into a foreign land, where neither of you were born and where both of you will die. Your people will be in exile and will not return to the land to which they yearn to come back. “Is this man Coniah now thrown away like a worthless, broken pot that no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out and taken away to a land they knew not? Land of Judah! My land! My land! Hear the word of YAHWEH!” YAHWEH decrees: “List this man as ‘Childless,’ one who will never succeed in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will be accepted to sit on the throne of David and rule in Judah again.”