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1016 Prophecy of Jeremias

60 And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil year of king Sedecias.
that was to come upon Babylon: all these words 6 And in the fourth month, the ninth day of
that are written against Babylon. the month, a famine overpowered the city: and
61 And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou there was no food for the people of the land.
shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt 7 And the city was broken up, and the men of
read all these words, war fled, and went out of the city in the night by
62 Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken the way of the gate that is between the two walls,
against this place to destroy it: so that there and leadeth to the king’s garden, (the Chaldeans
should be neither man nor beast to dwell therein, besieging the city round about,) and they went
and that it should be desolate for ever. by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.
63 And when thou shalt have made an end 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued af-
of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to ter the king: and they overtook Sedecias in the
it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the Eu- desert which is near Jericho: and all his compan-
phrates: ions were scattered from him.
64 And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon 9 And when they had taken the king, they
sink, and she shall not rise up from the afflic- carried him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha,
tion that I will bring upon her, and she shall which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judg-
be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of ment upon him.
Jeremias. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of
Sedecias before his eyes: and he slew all the
princes of Juda in Reblatha.
Chapter 52 11 And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and
bound him with fetters, and the king of Babylon
Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he brought him into Babylon, and he put him in
began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in prison till the day of his death.
Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Ami- 12 And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the
tal, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna. month, the same is the nineteenth year of Nabu-
2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of chodonosor, king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan
the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done. the general of the army, who stood before the
3 For the wrath of the Lord was against king of Babylon in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, and against Juda, till he cast them 13 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and
out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem,
from the king of Babylon. and every great house he burnt with fire.
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans that
reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the were with the general broke down all the wall of
month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Baby- Jerusalem round about.
lon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, 15 But Nabuzardan the general carried away
and they besieged it, and built forts against it captives some of the poor people, and of the rest
round about. of the common sort who remained in the city,
5 And the city was besieged until the eleventh and of the fugitives that were fled over to the