Then all people will know that I am the Lord. And they will know that I have pulled my sword from its sheath. My sword won’t go back into its sheath again \{until it is finished\}.’”
“I make this promise by my own power. And when I make a promise, that promise is true. The thing I promise will happen! And I promise that every person will bow before me (God). And every person will promise \{to follow me\}.
In the same way, my words leave my mouth,\par and they don’t come back until they make things happen.\par My words make the things happen that I want to happen.\par My words succeed in doing the things I send them to do.\par
“Jeremiah, say to those nations, this is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says, ‘Drink this cup of my anger. Get drunk from it and vomit! Fall down and don’t get up. Don’t get up because I am sending a sword to kill you.’
“‘Put the sword (Babylon) back in its sheath. {\cf2\super [167]} \{Babylon,\} I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land where you were born.
\{God said to me,\} “Son of man, {\cf2\super [156]} make sad sounds like a sad person with a broken heart. Make these sad sounds in front of the people.