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22 Like a storm, my punishment will blow all your shepherds away
    and send your friends into captivity.
Then you will really be ashamed and disgraced
    because of all the wicked things you did.
23 King, you live in your palace,
    cozy in your rooms of cedar.
But when your punishment comes, how you will groan
    like a woman giving birth to a baby!

Judgment upon Jehoiachin

24 “As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, even if you were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.

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22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

24 As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

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