Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem ¹  who are being besieged. ² 

The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’” ¹