<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="poetry">How long will you vacillate,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who were once like an unfaithful daughter?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For I, the <sc>Lordsc>, promise<n id="3" /> to bring about something new<n id="4" /> on the earth,p> <p class="poetry">something as unique as a woman protecting a man!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Zedekiah will be carried off to Babylon and will remain there until I have fully dealt with him.<n id="1" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="2" /> Even if you<n id="3" /> continue to fight against the Babylonians,<n id="4" /> you cannot win.&#8217;&#8221;p>

You did miracles and amazing deeds in the land of Egypt which have had lasting effect. By this means you gained both in Israel and among humankind a renown that lasts to this day.<n id="1" />

So Jeremiah remained confined<n id="1" /> in the courtyard of the guardhouse until the day Jerusalem<n id="2" /> was captured.p><t /><p class="bodytext">The following events occurred when Jerusalem<n id="3" /> was captured.<n id="4" />p>

To this day your people<n id="1" /> have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded<n id="2" /> you and your ancestors.&#8217;p>

I will indeed<n id="1" /> see to it that disaster, not prosperity, happens to them.<n id="2" /> All the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will die in war or from starvation until not one of them is left.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Hazor will become a permanent wasteland,p> <p class="poetry">a place where only jackals live.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No one will live there.p> <p class="poetry">No human being will settle in it.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore desert creatures and jackals will live there.p> <p class="poetry">Ostriches<n id="1" /> will dwell in it too.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But no people will ever live there again.p> <p class="poetry">No one will dwell there for all time to come.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Foreigners living there will say,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed.p> <p class="poetry">Let&#8217;s leave Babylonia<n id="2" /> and each go back to his own country.p> <p class="poetry">For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions.p> <p class="poetry">It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

Then say, &#8216;In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments<n id="1" /> I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.&#8217;&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">The prophecies of Jeremiah end here.<n id="2" />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.

He had Zedekiah&#8217;s eyes put out and had him bound in chains.<n id="1" /> Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died.p>

He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.p>

Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.<n id="1" />p>

So I said to them, What is this high place you go to?&#8217;&#8221; (So it is called &#8220;High Place&#8221;<n id="1" /> to this day.)p>

<p class="poetry">A total ruin I will make it!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It will come to an endp> <p class="poetry">when the one arrives to whom I have assigned judgment.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I tried to cleanse you,<n id="2" /> but you are not clean.p> <p class="poetry">You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until I have exhausted my anger on you.p>

Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,<n id="1" />

When the scouts survey<n id="1" /> the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it<n id="2" /> in the valley of Hamon-Gog.