⁶ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his ^(A)eyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the ^(B)nobles of Judah.

^10 (A)Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

¹⁹ the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the ^[a]eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf— ²⁰ I will ^(A)give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their ^(B)dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth. ²¹ And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army ^(C)which has gone back from you.

⁸ ‘And as the bad ^(A)figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the ^(B)residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and ^(C)those who dwell in the land of Egypt. ⁹ I will deliver them to ^(D)trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, ^(E)to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. ¹⁰ And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are ^[a]consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”

⁷ And afterward,” says the Lord, ^(A)“I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. ^(B)He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy.” ’

⁷ Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^(A)put^[a] out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

³⁴ So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.

⁶ For how can I endure to see ^(A)the evil that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my countrymen?”

²⁸ “Surely I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.