At that time gifts(A) will be brought to the Lord Almighty

from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(B)
    from a people feared(C) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers(D)

the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(E)

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But the Babylonian[a] army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah(A) in the plains of Jericho. They captured(B) him and took him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah(C) in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him. There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and also killed all the nobles(D) of Judah. Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes(E) and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.(F)

The Babylonians[b] set fire(G) to the royal palace and the houses of the people and broke down the walls(H) of Jerusalem. Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard carried into exile to Babylon the people who remained in the city, along with those who had gone over to him,(I) and the rest of the people.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 39:5 Or Chaldean
  2. Jeremiah 39:8 Or Chaldeans

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