But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
They - Coniah and his mother. He passes from the second person (Jeremiah 22:26) to the third person here, to express the alienation. The king is as it were put out of sight, as if unworthy of being spoken with directly.
The land where unto they desire - literally, lift up their soul (Jeremiah 44:14; Psalms 24:4; Psalms 25:1). Judea was the land which they in Babylon should pine after in vein.