<p class="poetry">Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">by the fierce anger of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it.p> <p class="poetry">They will be disappointed in their harvests<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because the <sc>Lordsc> will take them away in his fierce anger.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Get out of Babylon, my people!p> <p class="poetry">Flee to save your livesp> <p class="poetry">from the fierce anger of the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">So put on sackcloth!p> <p class="poetry">Mourn and wail, saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The fierce anger of the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">has not turned away from us!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The anger of the <sc>Lordsc> will not turn backp> <p class="poetry">until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">In days to come<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you people will come to understand this clearly.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The anger of the <sc>Lordsc> will not turn backp> <p class="poetry">until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.p> <p class="poetry">In days to come you will come to understand this.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anger when he drove them out of his sight.<n id="1" /> Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.