²⁰ Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”^(A)

Jerusalem’s Fall Explained

²¹ In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped^(B) from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!^(C)” ²² Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the Lord was on me,^(D) and he opened my mouth^(E) before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.^(F)