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You shall die in peace. (A)And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall (B)burn spices for you (C)and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, declares the Lord.”

Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem, when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, (D)Lachish and (E)Azekah, (F)for these were the only (G)fortified cities of Judah that remained.

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