⁵⁶ And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.^(A)’”

²⁶ I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses^(A) against you^(B) this day that you will quickly perish^(C) from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

⁴⁹ The Lord will bring a nation against you^(A) from far away, from the ends of the earth,^(B) like an eagle^(C) swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,^(D)

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.