⁵ He will take^(A) Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with him,^(B) declares the Lord. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not succeed.’”^(C)

¹⁵ But the king rebelled^(A) against him by sending his envoys to Egypt^(B) to get horses and a large army.^(C) Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the treaty and yet escape?^(D)

⁹ “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.^{(A) 10} It has been planted,^(B) but will it thrive? Will it not wither completely when the east wind strikes it—wither away in the plot where it grew?^(C)’”

⁷ Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes^(A) and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.^(B)

⁵ in the fight with the Babylonians^[a]: ‘They will be filled with the dead bodies of the people I will slay in my anger and wrath.^(A) I will hide my face^(B) from this city because of all its wickedness.