⁶³ Just as it pleased^(A) the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please^(B) him to ruin and destroy you.^(C) You will be uprooted^(D) from the land you are entering to possess.

⁶⁴ Then the Lord will scatter^(E) you among all nations,^(F) from one end of the earth to the other.^(G) There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.^{(H) 65} Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place^(I) for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes^(J) weary with longing, and a despairing heart.^{(K) 66} You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. ⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.^{(L) 68} The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again.^(M) There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

25 So in the ninth^(A) year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar^(B) king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works^(C) all around it. ² The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

³ By the ninth day of the fourth^[a] month the famine^(D) in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. ⁴ Then the city wall was broken through,^(E) and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians^[b] were surrounding^(F) the city. They fled toward the Arabah,^{[c] 5} but the Babylonian^[d] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,^{(G) 6} and he was captured.^(H)

He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah,^(I) where sentence was pronounced on him. ⁷ They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.^(J)