On the seventh day of the fifth month #– #which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon #– #Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 39:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The Chaldeans next burned down the king’s palace and the people’s houses and tore down the walls of Jerusalem. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. American Standard Version (1901) And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. Common English Bible The Babylonians burned down the royal palace and the houses of the people, and they destroyed the Jerusalem walls. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, the Chaldeans burned the house of the king and the house of the people with fire, and they overturned the wall of Jerusalem. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house and the houses of the people, with fire, and they threw down the wall of Jerusalem. |
On the seventh day of the fifth month #– #which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon #– #Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.
They said to me, ‘The remnant in the province, who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned.’
I heard the Lord of Armies say: Indeed, many houses will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.
But if you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem and not be extinguished.” ’
For I have set my face against this city to bring disaster and not good #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. It will be handed over to the king of Babylon, who will burn it.”
The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire. They will burn it, including the houses where incense has been burned to Baal on their rooftops and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to anger me.
‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go, speak to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, “This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it.
I am about to give the command #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it. I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.’
Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire Chaldean army that is fighting with you, and there remained among them only the badly wounded men, each in his tent, they would get up and burn this city.” ’
But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city will be handed over to the Chaldeans. They will burn it, and you yourself will not escape from them.” ’
Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them, but do not finish them off. Prune away her shoots, for they do not belong to the Lord.
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Look, my anger #– #my burning wrath #– #is about to be poured out on this place, on people and animals, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.’
The adversary has seized all her precious belongings. She has even seen the nations enter her sanctuary – those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In his wrath he has demolished the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.
The Lord has rejected his altar, repudiated his sanctuary; he has handed the walls of her palaces over to the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.
They will burn your houses and execute judgements against you in the sight of many women. I will stop you from being a prostitute, and you will never again pay fees for lovers.
The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.
In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, ‘The city has been taken! ’
Therefore, I will send fire against Judah, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.