[As] I live, says the Lord, though Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet ring upon My right hand, yet would I pluck you off;

Jeconiah is dishonored as a good for nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.

The Lord showed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried Jeconiah son of Joakim king of Judah captive, [along] with the princes, the craftsmen, the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Jehoiakim king of Judah had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fourth [day] of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,

and changed his prison garments. And he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.

And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the carrying away of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of his prison house.

and changed his prison garments; and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life.

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.

Thus says the Lord: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Then Hananiah took the yokes from the neck of Jeremiah in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces.

For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you have said, I will not serve You, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.

In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers.

And you shall live by your sword, and shall serve your brother; and there shall be [a time] when you shall break and loosen his yoke from off your neck.

Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that was on their neck; for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Midian.

And now will I break off his rod from you, and will burst your bonds.