22:20 你要上黎巴嫩哀號，在巴珊揚聲，從亞巴琳哀號，因為你所親愛的都毀滅了。
22:21 你興盛的時候，我對你說話；你卻說：我不聽。你自幼年以來總是這樣，不聽從我的話。
22:22 你的牧人要被風吞吃，你所親愛的必被擄去；那時你必因你一切的惡抱愧蒙羞。
22:23 你這住黎巴嫩、在香柏樹上搭窩的，有痛苦臨到你，好像疼痛臨到產難的婦人，那時你何等可憐！
22:24 耶和華說：「猶大王約雅敬的兒子哥尼雅（又名耶哥尼雅；下同），雖是我右手上帶印的戒指，我憑我的永生起誓，也必將你從其上摘下來，
22:25 並且我必將你交給尋索你命的人和你所懼怕的人手中，就是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒和迦勒底人的手中。
22:26 我也必將你和生你的母親趕到別國，並不是你們生的地方；你們必死在那裡，
22:27 但心中甚想歸回之地，必不得歸回。」
22:28 哥尼雅這人是被輕看、破壞的器皿嗎？是無人喜愛的器皿嗎？他和他的後裔為何被趕到不認識之地呢？
22:29 地啊，地啊，地啊，當聽耶和華的話！
22:30 耶和華如此說：要寫明這人算為無子，是平生不得亨通的；因為他後裔中再無一人得亨通，能坐在大衛的寶座上治理猶大。
“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
and lift
up your voice in Bashan;
cry out
from Abarim,
for all
your lovers are destroyed.
I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you
said, ‘I will not listen.’
This has
been your way from your youth,
that you
have not obeyed my voice.
The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and your
lovers shall go into captivity;
then you
will be ashamed and confounded
because
of all your evil.
O inhabitant of Lebanon,
nested
among the cedars,
how you
will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
pain as
of a woman in labor!”
“As I live, declares the Lord, though
Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right
hand, yet I would tear you off and give
you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom
you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into
the hand of the Chaldeans. I will hurl
you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born,
and there you shall die. But to the land
to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”
Is
this man Coniah a despised, broken pot,
a vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a land that they do not know?
O
land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord!
Thus says the Lord:
“Write this man down as childless,
a man who shall not succeed in his days,
for none of his offspring shall succeed
in sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.”
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先知耶利米更是預言到猶大的王室，就是大衛的子孫，將因為被擄到巴比倫，而不再繼續做猶大的掌權者。也預言到：「猶大王約雅敬的兒子哥尼雅（又名耶哥尼雅；下同），雖是我右手上帶印的戒指，我憑我的永生起誓，也必將你從其上摘下來，並且我必將你交給尋索你命的人和你所懼怕的人手中，就是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒和迦勒底人的手中。我也必將你和生你的母親趕到別國，並不是你們生的地方；你們必死在那裡，但心中甚想歸回之地，必不得歸回。」
這樣說也就是宣告上帝的主權，上帝可以興起一個王，也可以廢去一個王，一切都在祂的掌管之中。人是無法左右上帝的作為，即使是權位再大的人，也是在上帝的掌管之中！也因此，我們不要懼怕有權有勢的人，當怕掌管有權有勢之人的上帝，唯有上帝統管一切！
這也告訴我們，我們不要自以為有權柄，一切的權柄都是出於上帝，越有權柄的人，越是要敬畏上帝，不可以隨己意任意而為！今日雖然風光，哪日上帝追究時，可以在上帝的面前站立得住嗎？
