A Prayer in Deep Distress

² For with what ^[a]judgment you judge, you will be judged; ^(A)and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

¹² ‘Then it will come to pass, ^(A)when ^[a]seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ^(B)‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. ¹³ So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. ^14 (C)(For many nations ^(D)and great kings shall ^(E)be served by them also; ^(F)and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)’ ”

¹² Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has ^[a]performed all His work ^(A)on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, ^(B)“I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.”

⁷ And Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; ^(A)as I have done, so God has repaid me.” Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

^17 (A)For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, ^(B)until the words of God are fulfilled.