Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him to Babylon.

Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, They shall not mourn for him, saying, Alas, my brother! or, Alas, sister! They shall not mourn for him, saying, Alas, master! or, Alas, his majesty!

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out into the heat of the day, and the frost of the night.

And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity. And I will bring upon them, and upon the people of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have spoken against them; but they have not given heed.

He knew their desolate places, and laid waste their cities; the land with its fullness was desolated by the sound of his roaring.

Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the Word of Jehovah!