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So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.

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

And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried captive out of its land.

So Jehoi'achin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table;

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;

so I say, "Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the LORD."

thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could touch their garments.

"Away! Unclean!" men cried at them; "Away! Away! Touch not!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; men said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."

Men dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered; for our end had come.

Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?

Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

So I arose and went forth into the plain; and, lo, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people;

and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb and unable to reprove them; for they are a rebellious house.

For I assign to you a number of days, three hundred and ninety days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment; so long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.

And, behold, I will put cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.

Wherever you dwell your cities shall be waste and your high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now in the direction of the north." So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.