Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense upon his own head.

And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had adjured him by God; but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Jehovah the God of Israel.

And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus says Jehovah, Thus I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the rest of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt;

And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

while they see false visions for you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you upon the necks of the slain, the wicked whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end.

An end has come, the end has come; it has awakened against you; behold, it has come!

For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it will be a day of clouds, the time of the nations.

Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity had come to an end;

O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked, You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

The desolations of the enemy have come to an end forever, and You have destroyed the cities; the remembrance of them has perished with them.

O you who live on many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your unjust gain.