1. The word that came to Jeremiah from יְהוָ֥ה in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

2. For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which in the king of Judah's house.

3. For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith יְהוָ֥ה, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

4. And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

5. And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith יְהוָ֥ה: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.