Liberation from Captivity Promised

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

Restoration Promised

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, saying,

Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God promised this disaster against this place;

and the Lord has brought it and done just as He promised. Because you people sinned against the Lord and did not listen to His voice, this thing has happened to you.

and say, ‘You, Lord, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing living in it, whether man or animal; but it will be a permanent desolation.’