Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every stronghold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.

But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.

For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and those that plot against you shall awake, and you shall be a plunder to them.

They that see you shall marvel at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

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

behold I [will] send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it. And I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have spoken against it, [even] all things that are written in this book.

Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Take the cup of this unmixed wine from My hand, and you shall cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send you.

So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:

And Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;

and Edom, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,

and Dedan, Tema, Buz, and everyone that is shaved round about the face,

and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,

In the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah, there came this word concerning the nations.

Take up arms and spears, and draw close to battle;

Why do they fear, and turn back? Even because their mighty men shall be slain: They have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied, says the Lord.

Who is this [that] shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll [their] waves?

Mount the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, you warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, you Libyans, bend the bow.

Go up to Gilead, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain have you multiplied your medicines; there is no help for you.

The words which the Lord spoke by Jeremiah, concerning the coming of the king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt.

Why has Apis fled from you? Your choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.

Call on the name of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt; he has passed the appointed time.

O daughter of Egypt dwelling [at home], prepare for yourselves stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.

Also her hired [soldiers] in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord. They stood not, for the day of destruction had come upon them, and the time of their retribution.

They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, for [their number] cannot at all be determined, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.

Behold, I [will] avenge Ammon her son upon Pharaoh, and upon them that trust in him.

But fear not, My servant Jacob, neither be alarmed, Israel; for behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be at ease, and sleep, and there shall be no one to trouble him.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, of Libnah.

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So the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah,

And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went out by night by the way of the gate, between the wall and the outworks, which were by the king's garden. And the Chaldeans were by the city round about; and they went by the way [leading] to the wilderness.

And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah, and he judged him.

And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters. And the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.

and he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burned with fire.

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And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the bronze sea that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and carried it away to Babylon.

and the basins, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the lampstands, and the censers, and the cups, and whatever [was] solid gold, and the silver, and whatever [was] of solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness of it [all] round was four fingers.

And the pomegranates were ninety-six on a side; and all the pomegranates on the network round about were a hundred.

and one eunuch, who was over the men of war, and seven men of renown, who were in the king's presence that were found in the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part of a scribe to the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

And the king of Babylon struck them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath.

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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 changed his prison garments. And he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

and you shall say to the children of Ammon: Hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord: Forasmuch as you have rejoiced against My sanctuary, because it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, because it was laid waste, and against the house of Judah, because they went into captivity;

And I will give up the city of Ammon for camels' pastures, and the children of Ammon for a pasture of sheep; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy you from among the peoples, and I will completely cut you off from out of the countries; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, [even] the choice land, the house of Beth Jeshimoth above the fountain of the city, by the seaside.

And I will execute vengeance on Moab; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

therefore thus says the Lord: I will also stretch out My hand upon Edom, and will utterly destroy out of it [both] man and beast, and I will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Teman shall fall by the sword.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Because the Philistines have wrought revengefully, and raised up vengeance rejoicing from their heart to destroy [the Israelites] to a man;

And I will execute great vengeance upon them, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought My vengeance upon them.