For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited all oppression is in the midst of her.
Behold, works are built up against the city to take it: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence. And what thou hast spoken is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.
For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to the houses of this city and to the houses of the king of Juda which are destroyed and to the bulwarks and to the sword.
For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against iniquity and I often proclaim devistation: and the word of the Lord is made a reproach to me and a derision, all the day.
In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon and all his army to Jerusalem, and they besieged it.