⁷ When they grasped you with their hands, you splintered^(A) and you tore open their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke and their backs were wrenched.^[a](B)

¹⁵ But the king rebelled^(A) against him by sending his envoys to Egypt^(B) to get horses and a large army.^(C) Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the treaty and yet escape?^(D)

¹⁶ “‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, he shall die^(E) in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty he broke.^{(F) 17} Pharaoh^(G) with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps^(H) are built and siege works erected to destroy many lives.^(I)

⁵ This is what the Lord says:

⁵ Pharaoh’s army had marched out of Egypt,^(A) and when the Babylonians^[a] who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew^(B) from Jerusalem.^(C)

⁶ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet: ⁷ “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire^(D) of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched^(E) out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.^{(F) 8} Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture^(G) it and burn^(H) it down.’

⁹ “This is what the Lord says: Do not deceive^(I) yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not! ¹⁰ Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian^[b] army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn^(J) this city down.”

¹¹ After the Babylonian army had withdrawn^(K) from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,