¹⁷ The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon.^(A) Nothing will be left, says the Lord. ¹⁸ And some of your descendants,^(B) your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”^(C)

¹⁴ I will forsake^(A) the remnant^(B) of my inheritance and give them into the hands of enemies. They will be looted and plundered by all their enemies;

² “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go to Zedekiah^(A) king of Judah and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.^{(B) 3} You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and given into his hands.^(C) You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon.

²¹ “I will deliver Zedekiah^(A) king of Judah and his officials^(B) into the hands of their enemies^(C) who want to kill them, to the army of the king of Babylon,^(D) which has withdrawn^(E) from you.

²³ “All your wives and children^(A) will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape^(B) from their hands but will be captured^(C) by the king of Babylon; and this city will^[a] be burned down.”^(D)