17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city 1 of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!
1 tn Heb “place.”
2 tn Heb “to desecrate.”
3 tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”