¹¹ Then ^(A)the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile.

^17 (A)Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand. ^18 (B)All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. ¹⁹ Then ^(C)they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles. ²⁰ Those who had escaped from the sword he ^(D)carried away to Babylon; and ^(E)they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, ^21 (F)to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until ^(G)the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. ^(H)All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath ^[a](I)until seventy years were complete.

⁷ I will ^(A)make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and ^(B)I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their ^(C)carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth. ⁸ I will also make this city a ^(D)desolation and an object of hissing; ^(E)everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its ^[a]disasters. ⁹ I will make them ^(F)eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’

¹⁰ “Then you are to break the ^(G)jar in the sight of the men who accompany you ¹¹ and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Just so will I ^(H)break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will ^(I)bury in Topheth ^[b]because there is no other place for burial. ¹² This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants,” declares the Lord, “so as to make this city like Topheth.

³ because Zedekiah king of Judah had ^(A)shut him up, saying, “Why do you ^(B)prophesy, saying, ‘^(C)Thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to ^(D)give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

²⁴ Behold, the ^(A)siege ramps have reached the city to take it; and the city is ^(B)given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the ^(C)sword, the famine and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has ^(D)come to pass; and behold, You see it.

³⁶ “Now therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is ^(A)given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine and by pestilence.’

² “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘^(A)Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him: “Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, ^(B)I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and ^(C)he will burn it with fire. ^3 (D)You will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and you will ^(E)see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you ^[a]face to face, and you will go to Babylon.’”’