⁸ In Tahpanhes the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah. The Lord said, ⁹ “Take some large stones in your hand while the men of Judah are watching, and bury them in the mudbrick pavement at the entrance of Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes. ¹⁰ Tell them that this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says. Be sure of this. I will send for my servant, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I^[a] will set his throne on these stones that I^[b] have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them. ¹¹ He will come and attack Egypt, bringing death to those doomed to death, captivity to those doomed to captivity, and the sword to those doomed to the sword. ¹² I^[c] will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them—or carry them away to captivity. He will wrap Egypt around himself as a shepherd wraps a cloak around himself.^[d] Then he will go away in peace. ¹³ He will smash the sacred obelisks in the temple of the sun^[e] in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the Egyptian gods.”