Study Desk

"As I live," declares the LORD, "even if ^(F1)(C1)Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a ^(C2)signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull ^(F1)you ^(F2)off;

and I will ^(C1)hand you over to those who are seeking your life, yes, to those of whom you are frightened, that is, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Chaldeans.

"I will ^(C1)hurl you and your ^(C2)mother who gave birth to you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.

"But as for the land to which they long to return, they will not return to it.

-"Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar? Or is he an ^(C1)undesirable vessel? Why have he and his descendants been ^(C2)hurled out And cast into a ^(C3)land that they had not known?

-"^(C1)O land, land, land, Hear the word of the LORD!

"This is what the LORD says: 'Write this man down as ^(C1)childless, A man who will ^(C2)not prosper in his days; For no man among his ^(C3)descendants will prosper Sitting on the throne of David Or ruling again in Judah.'"