So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will (A)remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will (B)break down its wall and it will become (C)trampled ground.

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A (A)sound of a roar on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of armies is mustering the army for battle.

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Then all the (A)officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the (B)Middle Gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the [a]Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the [b]Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 39:3 I.e., chief official
  2. Jeremiah 39:3 I.e., title of a high official

The Lord has become like an (A)enemy.
He has (B)engulfed Israel;
He has engulfed all its (C)palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And (D)caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.

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The Lord has (A)rejected His altar,
He has [a]repudiated His sanctuary;
He (B)has handed over
The walls of her palaces to the enemy.
They have made a (C)noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of an appointed feast.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:7 I.e., scornfully rejected

For I will (A)gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be taken, the (B)houses plundered, the women raped, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be eliminated from the city.

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