25. I would hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you dread, even Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar and his army.
26. I will banish you and your mother who bore you to a land far from your native soil, and there the two of you will die.
27. You will never return to the land you long to go back to.
28. Is this man Coniahmerely a defiled and broken pottery jarthat no one wants?Why then have he and his children been hurled outand cast into an unfamiliar land?
29. Land, land, land,hear the Lord’s word: