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22 The wind will blow away all your shepherds,
    and your lovers will go into captivity.
    Then you will be ashamed and disgraced by all your wickedness.
23 You live in Lebanon and have your nest in the cedars.
    But you will groan when pain strikes you,
    pain like a woman giving birth to a child.

24 “As I live,” declares Yahweh, “even though you, Jehoiakin,[a] son of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, are the signet ring on my right hand, I will pull you off my hand.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:24 Masoretic Text “Coniah,” an alternate form of Jehoiakin.

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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