Johanan and all the officers of the troops that had been hiding in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.

This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the Lord by doing what he sent me to tell you.

on Kerioth and Bozrah. It will come on all the towns of Moab, both far and near.

Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that ‘hammer’ has been broken and shattered! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished.”

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.

You will stumble and fall, you proud city; no one will help you get up. I will set fire to your towns; it will burn up everything that surrounds you.”

“See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

“Babylon must fall because of the Israelites she has killed, just as the earth’s mortally wounded fell because of Babylon.

Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read aloud all these prophecies.

There were ninety-six pomegranate-shaped ornaments on the sides; in all there were one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments over the latticework that went around it.

Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

א (Alef)Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.

“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

along with their entire bodies, their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

So I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

“‘After all of your evil – “Woe! Woe to you!” declares the sovereign Lord –