Jeremiah 52 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Tsiḏ

² And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, according to all that Yehoyaqim had done.

³ For through the displeasure of יהוה  this came to be against Yerushalayim and Yehuḏ

⁴ And it came to be in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Neḇ

⁵ And the city was under siege until the eleventh year of Sovereign Tsiḏ

⁶ On the ninth of the fourth month the scarcity of food was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

⁷ Then the city wall was breached, and all the men of battle fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the sovereign’s garden, while the Chaldeans were near the city all around. And they went by way of the desert plain.

⁸ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the sovereign, and they overtook Tsiḏ

⁹ Then they captured the sovereign and brought him up to the sovereign of Baḇ

¹⁰ And the sovereign of Baḇ

¹¹ And he put out the eyes of Tsiḏ

¹² And on the tenth of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of sovereign Neḇ

¹³ and he burned the House of יהוה, and the sovereign’s house, and all the houses of Yerushalayim, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire.

¹⁴ And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the chief of the guard broke down all the walls of Yerushalayim all around.

¹⁵ And Neḇ

¹⁶ But Neḇ

¹⁷ And the Chaldeans broke the bronze columns that were in the House of יהוה, and the stands and the bronze Sea that were in the House of יהוה, and brought all their bronze to Baḇ

¹⁸ They also took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the ladles, and all the bronze utensils with which they served,

¹⁹ and the basins, and the fire holders, and the bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the ladles, and the cups, whatever was of solid gold and whatever was of solid silver, the chief of the guard took.

²⁰ The two columns, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under it, and the stands, which Sovereign Shelomoh had made for the House of יהוה  – the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weighing.

²¹ As for the columns, the height of one column was eighteen cubits, and its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, hollow.

²² And a capital of bronze was on it. And the height of one capital was five cubits, with a network and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze. And the second column, with pomegranates was the same.

²³ And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides. All the pomegranates on the network were one hundred, all around.

²⁴ And the chief of the guard took Serayah the chief priest, and Tsephanyah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

²⁵ And from the city he took one eunuch who was in charge of the men of battle, and seven men who saw the sovereign’s face, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

²⁶ And Neḇ

²⁷ and the sovereign of Baḇ

²⁸ These are the people whom Neḇ

²⁹ in the eighteenth year of Neḇ

³⁰ in the twenty-third year of Neḇ

³¹ And it came to be in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Yehoyaḵ

³² and spoke kindly to him and set his throne above those of the sovereigns who were with him in Baḇ

³³ So he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread continually before the sovereign all the days of his life.

³⁴ And as for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the sovereign of Baḇ