²¹ And then^[a] it was in the twelfth^[b] year, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month of our exile, a survivor from Jerusalem came to me, saying,^[c] “The city was destroyed!” ²² And the hand of Yahweh was on me on the evening before^[d] the coming of the survivor, and he opened my mouth before the survivor came to me in the morning,^[e] and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer^[f] dumb.^[g]