Jeremiah 22:28 “Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wan…”

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

World English Bible

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

American Standard Version

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

Geneva Bible 1599

Is not this man Coniah as a despised and broken idole? or as a vessell, wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they caryed away, hee and his seede, and cast out into a lande that they knowe not?

Darby Translation

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vase? a vessel wherein is no delight? Wherefore are they thrown out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Young's Literal Translation

A grief — a despised broken thing — is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?

Bible in Basic English

Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?

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Cross references

“a despised”

Psalm 31:12 Hosea 8:8 Jeremiah 48:38 1 Samuel 5:3–5 2 Samuel 5:21 Hosea 13:15

Psalm 31:12 · BSB

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

Hosea 8:8 · BSB

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

Jeremiah 48:38 · BSB

On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.

1 Samuel 5:3–5 · BSB

When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

2 Samuel 5:21 · BSB

There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.

Hosea 13:15 · BSB

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious…

“his seed”

Jeremiah 22:30 1 Chronicles 3:17–24 Matthew 1:12–16

Jeremiah 22:30 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”

1 Chronicles 3:17–24 · BSB

The descendants of Jeconiah the captive: Shealtiel his son,

Matthew 1:12–16 · BSB

After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

“which”

Jeremiah 14:18

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Also

Jeremiah 15:1 Jeremiah 17:4

Jeremiah 15:1 · BSB

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!

Jeremiah 17:4 · BSB

And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27You will never return to the land for which you long.”

29O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

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