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It may be nice to live in a beautiful palace paneled with wood from the cedars of Lebanon, but soon you will groan with pangs of anguish— anguish like that of a woman in labor.
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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.
Footnotes 2
[a].
Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar.