“ Now, lament for the princes of Israel

“你当为以色列的王作起哀歌，

你当为以色列的领袖们唱哀歌，

你当为以色列的领袖们唱哀歌，

“你要为以色列的首领唱哀歌，

“你当为以色列的众领袖作一首哀歌，

你當為以色列的王作起哀歌，

你當為以色列的領袖們唱哀歌，

你當為以色列的領袖們唱哀歌，

「你要為以色列的首領唱哀歌，

“你當為以色列的眾領袖作一首哀歌，

你，你要為以色列的人君舉哀唱歌，

爾當為以色列牧伯作哀歌、

爾當為以色列牧伯作哀歌、

爾以西結當為以色列諸君諸君或作牧伯作哀歌、曰、

“ Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel

“ Sing a song of sadness about Israel’s princes.

And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

“ Sing this funeral song for the princes of Israel:

“ As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel,

“ As for you, take up a song of mourning for the leaders of Israel

“ Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

“ And you, sing a lament for the princes of Israel,

“ Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.

Then they will lament for you and say of you: How you have perished, city of renown, you who were populated from the seas! She who was powerful on the sea, she and all of her inhabitants inflicted their terror.

“ Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.

Jehoiachin king of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the king of Babylon. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army was scattered from him.The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.They slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes. Finally, the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him in bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.

Fire has gone out from its main branch and has devoured its fruit, so that it no longer has a strong branch, a scepter for ruling. This is a lament and should be used as a lament.”

When He unrolled it before me, it was written on the front and back; words of lamentation, mourning, and woe were written on it.

During his reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to confront him, and at Megiddo when Neco saw him he killed him.From Megiddo his servants carried his dead body in a chariot, brought him into Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the common people took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.

Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and went to Egypt, and he died there.

From the city he took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and 60 men from the common people who were found within the city.Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.

The king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and fined the land 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold.

Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not mourn for him, saying,“ Woe, my brother!” or“ Woe, my sister!” They will not mourn for him, saying,“ Woe, lord! Woe, his majesty!”He will be buried like a donkey, dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Consider, and summon the women who mourn; send for the skillful women.Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears, our eyelids soaked with weeping.

But if you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.Say to the king and the queen mother: Take a humble seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.

At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes and also slaughtered the Judean commanders.Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

In their wailing they lament for you, mourning over you: Who was like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

“ Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt and bring Egypt and the daughters of mighty nations down to the underworld, to be with those who descend to the Pit:

Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women still speak of Josiah in their dirges to this very day. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Dirges.

“ This is a lament that will be chanted; the women of the nations will chant it. They will chant it over Egypt and all its hordes.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

This is what the Lord says: Record this man as childless, a man who will not be successful in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.

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

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord.

Do not weep for the dead; do not mourn for him. Weep bitterly for the one who has gone away, for he will never return again and see his native land.For this is what the Lord says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of his father Josiah:“ He has left this place— he will never return here again,but he will die in the place where they deported him, never seeing this land again.”

The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their traps. We had said about him,“ We will live under his protection among the nations.”

“ But as for the bad figs, so bad they are inedible, this is what the Lord says: in this way I will deal with king Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem— those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.

Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, everything has fled— they have gone away.

If my head were a spring of water, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.

Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

In the spring Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon along with the valuable utensils of the Lord’s temple. Then he made Jehoiachin’s brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.