‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city.

I will send destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut up your fine cedar beams and throw them into the fire.

The Lord has opened his arsenal and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Sovereign Lord Almighty has work to do in the land of the Babylonians.

“You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms,