21 When times were good,I warned you.But you ignored me,just as you have donesince Israel was young.
22 Now you will be disgracedbecause of your sins.Your leaders will be swept awayby the wind,and the nations you trustedwill be captured and draggedto a foreign country.
23 Those who live in the palacepanelled with cedarwill groan with painlike women giving birth.
24 King Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim, even if you were the ring I wear as the sign of my royal power, I would still pull you from my finger.
25 I would hand you over to the enemy you fear, to King Nebuchadnezzar and his army, who want to kill you.
26 You and your mother were born in Judah, but I will throw both of you into a foreign country, where you will die,
27 longing to return home.