¹¹ “This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household^(A) I am going to bring calamity on you.^(B) Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.^(C)

⁹ For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds^(A) of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride^(B) and bridegroom in this place.^(C)

⁴ For this is what the Lord says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes^(A) you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give^(B) all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry^(C) them away to Babylon or put them to the sword.

¹⁶ “Go and tell Ebed-Melek^(A) the Cushite, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words^(B) against this city—words concerning disaster,^(C) not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.