Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

“I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’ and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel – but not in an honest and just manner.