For so Jehovah of Hosts has said, Cut down her trees and pour out a siege-mound against Jerusalem. She is the city to be called to account; in her midst is oppression, all of her.
So Jehovah says this to the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, and not come before it with a shield, and not pour out a siege mound on it.
Behold, the siege mounds have come to the city, to capture it. And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and the famine, and the plague. And what You have spoken has happened. And, behold, You see it.
For so says Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to defend against the siege mounds, and against the sword,
In the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
And the king of the north shall come and pour out a siege mound and seize a guarded fortification. And the arms of the south shall not stand, and his choice people, for there will be no firmness to stand.