Catholic Public Domain Version
"And to the land about which they lift up their mind, thinking to return there, they shall not return. "
— Jeremiah 22:27, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.”
“But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return. ”
“But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.”
“You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!””
“And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither.”
“But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.”
“But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.”
As I live, says the Lord, if Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a ring on my right hand, I would remove him from there.
And I will deliver you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you dread, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
And I will send you, and your mother who conceived you, into a foreign land, in which you were not born, and there you shall die.
And to the land about which they lift up their mind, thinking to return there, they shall not return.
Is this man, Jeconiah, a broken earthenware vessel? Is he a vessel which is entirely unpleasing? Why have they been cast out, he and his offspring, cast out even into a land that they have not known?
O earth, O earth, O earth! Listen to the word of the Lord!
Thus says the Lord: Write: this man is barren; he is a man who will not prosper in his days. For there will not be a man from among his offspring who will sit upon the throne of David, or have authority in Judah, anymore.”