Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.

He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water; for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? A nation not looked for, and trodden down.

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the strong cities of Judah, and took them.

Thus says the Lord, My people went down before to Egypt to sojourn there; and were carried away forcibly to the Assyrians.

And now why are you here? Thus says the Lord: Because My people were taken for nothing, wonder and howl. Thus says the Lord: On account of you My name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.

All you beasts of the field, come, devour, all you beasts of the forest.

Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out. The king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.

He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.

My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Zion say; and my blood [shall be] upon the Chaldeans dwelling [there], shall Jerusalem say.

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzr king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall round about it with large stones.

on the ninth day of the month, and [then] the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him beyond Jericho. And all his servants were dispersed.

And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; and he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

And as He drew near, seeing the city, He wept over it,

For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and hem you in from every side,

"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has drawn near.

For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that has been written.

And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison house.

that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

I have raised him up [to be] a king with righteousness, and all his ways are right; he shall build My city, and shall turn the captivity of My people, not for ransoms, nor for rewards, says the Lord of hosts.

to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Jehoiakim king of Judah had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fourth [day] of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,

And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over; and you laid your body to the ground to them passing by outside.

And you shall grope at midday, as a blind man gropes in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.

Your calf [shall be] slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper.

A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be perpetually injured and crushed.

Now consider these things, all you that forget God, lest He tear [you], and there be none to deliver.