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^(A) from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!^(B)” ²² Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the Lord was on me,^(C) and he opened my mouth^(D) before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.^(E)