27. You will never again return to the land you yearn for.
28. “Why is this man Jehoiachin like a discarded, broken jar?Why are he and his children to be exiled to a foreign land?
29. O earth, earth, earth!Listen to this message from the lord!
30. This is what the lord says:‘Let the record show that this man Jehoiachin was childless.He is a failure,for none of his children will succeed him on the throne of Davidto rule over Judah.’