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27 As for the land to which they are longing[a] to return, they will not return.

28 Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel?
    Or a vessel in which there is no delight?
Why are he and his offspring thrown far,
    and cast away to the land that they do not know?”

29 O land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:27 Literally “lifting their inner self”

27 You will never come back to the land you long to return(A) to.”

28 Is this man Jehoiachin(B) a despised, broken pot,(C)
    an object no one wants?
Why will he and his children be hurled(D) out,
    cast into a land(E) they do not know?
29 O land,(F) land, land,
    hear the word of the Lord!

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