⁴ Then the city wall was broken through,^(A) and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians^[a] were surrounding^(B) the city. They fled toward the Arabah,^{[b] 5} but the Babylonian^[c] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,^{(C) 6} and he was captured.^(D)

He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah,^(E) where sentence was pronounced on him. ⁷ They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.^(F)

²⁵ The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to bring punishment on Amon god of Thebes,^(A) on Pharaoh,^(B) on Egypt and her gods^(C) and her kings, and on those who rely^(D) on Pharaoh.

²⁶ I will give them into the hands^(A) of those who want to kill them—Nebuchadnezzar king^(B) of Babylon and his officers. Later, however, Egypt will be inhabited^(C) as in times past,” declares the Lord.

³ Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: