Jeremiah 21-36: A Translation 7- Coniah: A Rejected Seal (22:24-27)
22 24 As I live-oracle of Yahweh-even if Coniah son of J ehoiakim, king of
Judah, be a seal on my right hand, surely from there I will tear you off.
(^25) And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life and into the
hand of those before whom you are in dread and into the hand of Nebu-
chadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.^26 And I
will throw you and your mother who bore you to another land where you
were not born, and there you shall die.^27 So to the land where they will
carry their great desire to return, there they shall not return.
- Is Coniah a Throwaway Pot? (22:28-30)
22 28 Is an unwanted, smashed pot
this man Coniah?
or a jar in which no one takes delight?
So why are he and his offspring thrown
and cast away to a land that they do not know?(^29) Land, Land, Land
Hear the word of Yahweh!
(^30) Thus said Yahweh:
Write this man down childless
a man who will not prosper in his days
Indeed there shall not prosper from his offspring
a man to sit upon the throne of David
and rule again in Judah.
- The Call Is Out for New Shepherds (23:1-4)
23 1 Woe to shepherds who destroy and who scatter the flock of my pas-
ture-oracle of Yahweh.
(^2) Therefore, thus said Yahweh, God of Israel, against the shepherds who shep-
herd my people:
You, you have scattered my flock and dispersed them, and you have not
reckoned them. Look I will reckon upon you your evil doings-oracle of
Yahweh.
(^3) And I, I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I
dispersed them, and I will bring them back to their pasture, and they
shall be fruitful and multiply.^4 And I will raise up over them shepherds
who will shepherd them. And they shall not again be afraid, and they
shall not be broken, and they shall not be reckoned with-oracle of
Yahweh.