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27 As for the land to which you[a] want to return, you[b] won’t return there!

28 “Is this man Jehoiachin[c] a despised and shattered jar,
    a vessel no one wants?
Why were he and his descendants hurled away,
    thrown into a land that they didn’t know?
29 Land, land, land,
    listen to this message from the Lord!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:27 Lit. they
  2. Jeremiah 22:27 Lit. they
  3. Jeremiah 22:28 Lit. Coniah

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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