³⁰ You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.^(A) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.^(B) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.^(C)

²² All the women^(A) left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. Those women will say to you:

²³ “All your wives and children^(D) will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape^(E) from their hands but will be captured^(F) by the king of Babylon; and this city will^[a] be burned down.”^(G)

²⁴ Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know^(H) about this conversation, or you may die. ²⁵ If the officials hear that I talked with you, and they come to you and say, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide it from us or we will kill you,’ ²⁶ then tell^(I) them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to Jonathan’s house^(J) to die there.’”

²⁷ All the officials did come to Jeremiah and question him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard his conversation with the king.

²⁸ And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard^(K) until the day Jerusalem was captured.

The Fall of Jerusalem^(L)

This is how Jerusalem^(M) was taken: