<p class="poetry">Your children hurry back,p> <p class="poetry">while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.p>

&#8216;Some of your very own descendants whom you father<n id="1" /> will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I announced events beforehand,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I issued the decrees and made the predictions;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">suddenly I acted and they came to pass.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Listen to this, O family of Jacob,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who are called by the name &#8216;Israel,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and are descended from Judah,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">who take oaths in the name of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">and invoke<n id="3" /> the God of Israel &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">but not in an honest and just manner.<n id="4" />p>