<p class="bodytext">Ten days later the <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah.

Many days later the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Go at once to Perath and get<n id="1" /> the shorts I ordered you to bury there.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Come from far away and attack Babylonia!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Open up the places where she stores her grain!p> <p class="poetry">Pile her up in ruins!<n id="2" /> Destroy her completely!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not leave anyone alive!<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.&#8221;<n id="1" /> But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.