Take great stones to your hand and hide them in the mortar in the brickwork which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.
And he brought out the people in it, and put them to the saw, and to sharp tools of iron, and to axes of iron. And he caused them to go over into the brick kiln. And so he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
And they made their lives bitter by hard service, in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field; all their work which they made them do with harshness.
And say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden. And he shall stretch his pavilion over them.
So says Jehovah, Behold, I am giving Pharaoh-hophra, king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his soul, even as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, his enemy that sought his soul.
And coming to us, and taking Paul’s girdle-band, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these things: In Jerusalem the Jews will bind in this way the man whose girdle-band this is, and will give him over into the hands of the nations.
And one strong angel lifted a stone like a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, Thus on a violent impulse, Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and it will not still be found, not ever!.