22. Now you will be disgracedbecause of your sins.Your leaders will be swept awayby the wind,and the nations you trustedwill be captured and draggedto a foreign country.
23. Those who live in the palacepanelled with cedarwill groan with painlike women giving birth.
24. King Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim, even if you were the ring I wear as the sign of my royal power, I would still pull you from my finger.
25. I would hand you over to the enemy you fear, to King Nebuchadnezzar and his army, who want to kill you.