Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

Then the Lord provoked their adversaries to attack them, he stirred up their enemies –

The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord who commands armies.

You saw the many breaks in the walls of the city of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!

It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.

and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”

“So, once more I will state my case against you,” says the Lord. “I will also state it against your children and grandchildren.

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.

“I, the Lord, say: ‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.

But they will be subject to the Lord their God and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them.

There were two copies of the deed of purchase. One was sealed and contained the order of transfer and the conditions of purchase. The other was left unsealed.

I will restore Judah and Israel and will rebuild them as they were in days of old.

Since it was the ninth month of the year, the king was sitting in his winter quarters. A fire was burning in the firepot in front of him.

Then he had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and had him bound in chains to be led off to Babylon.

They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.

“I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

“When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”