Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 22:28
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 28.) Is that man, Chonias (also known as Jechonias), like a broken and useless clay pot? Is he a vessel without any pleasure or usefulness? Why are he and his descendants rejected and thrown onto the ground that they do not know? Because of what we have said, Symmachus translated it as: Is he a vessel for trash…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
28Coniah is dishonored as a good-for-nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.
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In context
26And I will cast forth thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a land where thou wast not born; and there ye shall die.
27But they shall by no means return to the land which they long for in their souls.
— Jeremiah 22:28 —
29Land, land, hear the word of the Lord.
30Write ye this man an outcast: for there shall none of his seed at all grow up to sit on the throne of David, or as a prince yet in Judah.