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and then you will say, ‘You, O Yahweh, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing inhabiting it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.'

and then you will say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become utterly weary.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

So all the military force of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.

So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and had his meals in the king's presence continually all the days of his life.

So all her majestyHas gone out from the daughter of Zion;Her princes have become like deerThat have found no pasture;So they have fled without strengthBefore the pursuer.

They have heard that I am sighing;There is no one to comfort me;All my enemies have heard of the evil done to me;They rejoice that You have done it.You have brought the day which You have proclaimed,So that they will become like me.

He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;He has made my chain heavy.

So I say, "My strength has perished,As well as my hopeful waiting which comes from Yahweh."

So the iniquity of the daughter of my peopleIs greater than the sin of Sodom,Which was overthrown as in a moment,And no hands whirled toward her.

"Depart! Unclean!" they cried of themselves."Depart, depart, do not touch!"So they fled and wandered;Men among the nations said,"They shall not continue to sojourn with us."

Why do You forget us forever?Why do You forsake us so long?

As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the radiance all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. And I saw this, and I fell on my face and heard a sound of a voice speaking.

So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the wrath of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

"Son of man, I have given you as a watchman to the house of Israel; so you will hear a word from My mouth, and you shall warn them from Me.

So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory of Yahweh was standing there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face.

Now as for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them.