Yet (A)King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and (B)Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “(C)Please pray to the Lord our God on our behalf.” Now Jeremiah was still coming in and going out among the people, for they had not yet (D)put him in the prison. Meanwhile, (E)Pharaoh’s army had set out from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they (F)lifted the siege from Jerusalem.

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