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22 Your leaders will all disappear,
    as if a strong wind had blown them away.
Enemies will take your friends away as prisoners.
Then you will feel very ashamed,
    because of all the wicked things that you have done.
23 You live safely in beautiful houses
    that are made from Lebanon's cedar wood.
But when I punish you, you will cry out with pain.
    You will feel pain like a woman who is having a baby.’

A message about King Jeconiah

24 This is what the Lord says: ‘Jeconiah, king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, I promise you this, as surely as I live. I will remove your power as king. If you were the special ring of authority on my right hand, I would pull you off!

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