⁴³ For days will come upon you when your enemies will ^(A)build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, ^44 (B)and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and ^(C)they will not leave in you one stone upon another, ^(D)because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

²² In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem: to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to ^(A)lift the voice with shouting, ^(B)to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, and to build a wall.

⁷ But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out ^(A)his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

The Fall and Captivity of Judah^(A)

25 Now it came to pass ^(B)in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. ² So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ³ By the ninth day of the ^(C)fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

⁴ Then ^(D)the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And ^(E)the king^[a] went by way of the ^[b]plain.

¹¹ And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, as his servants were besieging it. ^12 (A)Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, ^(B)in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.

³² “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria:

Sennacherib Boasts Against the Lord^(A)

¹⁷ Then the king of Assyria sent the ^[a]Tartan, the ^[b]Rabsaris, and the ^[c]Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the ^(B)aqueduct from the upper pool, ^(C)which was on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.