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“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.
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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.
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I will expel you and your mother from this land, and you will die in a foreign country, not in your native land.
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You will never again return to the land you yearn for.
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“Why is this man Jehoiachin like a discarded, broken jar? Why are he and his children to be exiled to a foreign land?
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O earth, earth, earth! Listen to this message from the LORD !
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This is what the LORD says: ‘Let the record show that this man Jehoiachin was childless. He is a failure, for none of his children will succeed him on the throne of David to rule over Judah.’