‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: (A)Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. (B)And I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

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And (A)the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. (B)They shall capture it and burn it with fire. Thus says the Lord, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away. 10 (C)For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and (D)burn this city with fire.’”

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They are coming in (A)to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill them[a] with the dead bodies of men whom I shall strike down (B)in my anger and my wrath, (C)for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 33:5 That is, the torn-down houses

And (A)he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the Lord. (B)Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed’?”

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The sound (A)of a tumult is on the mountains
    as of a great multitude!
The sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
    of nations gathering together!
(B)The Lord of hosts is mustering
    a host for battle.

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And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove (A)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;[a]
(B)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5

For (A)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and (B)the city shall be taken (C)and the houses plundered (D)and the women raped. (E)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

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17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)If you will surrender to (B)the officials of the king of Babylon, (C)then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live. 18 But if you do not surrender to (D)the officials of the king of Babylon, (E)then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, (F)and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.”

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(A)The Lord has scorned his altar,
    (B)disowned his sanctuary;
(C)he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
    the walls of her palaces;
(D)they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of festival.

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(A)The Lord has become like an enemy;
    (B)he has swallowed up Israel;
(C)he has swallowed up all its palaces;
    he has laid in ruins its strongholds,
and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
    (D)mourning and lamentation.

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Then all (A)the officials of the king of Babylon came (B)and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer of Samgar, Nebu-sar-sekim (C)the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.

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“Thus says the Lord: (A)He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, (B)but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live. Thus says the Lord: (C)This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken.”

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The king was angry, and he sent his troops and (A)destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

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12 (A)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
(B)Woe to them
    when (C)I depart from them!

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37 therefore, behold, (A)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and (B)all those you hated. (C)I will gather them against you from every side (D)and will uncover your nakedness to them, that (E)they may see all your nakedness. 38 (F)And I will judge you (G)as women who commit adultery and (H)shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your (I)vaulted chamber and break down (J)your lofty places. (K)They shall strip you of your clothes and take (L)your beautiful jewels and leave you (M)naked and bare. 40 (N)They shall bring up a crowd against you, (O)and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 (P)And they shall (Q)burn your houses and (R)execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. (S)I will make you stop playing the whore, and (T)you shall also give payment no more.

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18 And they took away (A)the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;

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Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners
    or fall among the slain.
(A)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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