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"As surely as I live," declares the LORD , "even if you, Jehoiachin ^(F41) son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.

I will hand you over to those who seek your life, those you fear-to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Babylonians.

I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another country, where neither of you was born, and there you both will die.

You will never come back to the land you long to return to."

Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? Why will he and his children be hurled out, cast into a land they do not know?

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

This is what the LORD says: "Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah."