⁶³ And it shall be, that just as the Lord ^(A)rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord ^(B)will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be ^(C)plucked^[a] from off the land which you go to possess.

⁶⁴ “Then the Lord ^(D)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^(E)there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And ^(F)among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; ^(G)but there the Lord will give you a ^[b]trembling heart, failing eyes, and ^(H)anguish of soul. ⁶⁶ Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. ^67 (I)In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and ^(J)because of the sight which your eyes see.

⁶⁸ “And the Lord ^(K)will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ^(L)‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

The Fall and Captivity of Judah^(A)

25 Now it came to pass ^(B)in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. ² So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ³ By the ninth day of the ^(C)fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

⁴ Then ^(D)the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And ^(E)the king^[a] went by way of the ^[b]plain. ⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. ⁶ So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon ^(F)at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him. ⁷ Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^(G)put^[c] out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.