For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith YY : it shall be given into the hand of the king of Bavel, and he shall burn it with fire.
And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I Command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Yhudah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am YY , when I set my face against them.
But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Bavel's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
Thus saith YY , the Elohim of Yisrael; Go and speak to TZidkiyah-yahu king of Yhudah, and tell him, Thus saith YY ; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Bavel, and he shall burn it with fire:
And they burnt the house of Elohim, and brake down the wall of Yerushalayim, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Bavel: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Yisrael, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
But my words and my statutes, which I Commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as YY -TZvaot thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Behold, I will command, saith YY , and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Yhudah a desolation without an inhabitant.
But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Yerushalayim on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Yerushalayim, and it shall not be quenched.
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith YY -TZvaot, the Elohim of Yisrael; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
Then said Yirmeyah-yahu unto TZidkiyah-yahu, Thus saith YY , the Elohim of hosts, the Elohim of Yisrael; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Bavel's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house: