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23 Inhabitants[a] of Lebanon,
    nestled among the cedars,
how you will groan when labor pains come to you,
    fear and pain as the woman who gives birth.

24 “As I live,” declares[b] Yahweh, “surely if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were the seal on my right hand, surely from there I would wrench you off. 25 And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those from whom you are frightened by their presence, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:23 Hebrew “Inhabitant”
  2. Jeremiah 22:24 Literally “a declaration of”