And he has taken the king's seed, made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. He also has taken away the mighty of the land,

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

And King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had made king in the land of Judah.

For Jehovah your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;

a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you shall lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

She had strong branches for the scepters of rulers. She towered in stature above the thick branches, and was seen in her height amid the abundance of her branches.

But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong branches were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

Therefore they shall carry off the abundance they have produced and stored, over to the Brook of the Willows.

and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.