23 It may be nice to live in a beautiful palacepaneled with wood from the cedars of Lebanon,but soon you will groan with pangs of anguish—anguish like that of a woman in labor.
24 “As surely as I live,” says the lord, “I will abandon you, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. Even if you were the signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off.
25 I will hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you so desperately fear—to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the mighty Babylonian army.
26 I will expel you and your mother from this land, and you will die in a foreign country, not in your native land.
27 You will never again return to the land you yearn for.
28 “Why is this man Jehoiachin like a discarded, broken jar?Why are he and his children to be exiled to a foreign land?
29 O earth, earth, earth!Listen to this message from the lord!