² “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go, speak to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him: This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon,^(A) and he will burn it down.

²² I am about to give the command”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down.^(A) I will make Judah’s cities a desolation,^(B) without inhabitant.”

⁸ The Chaldeans will then return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.^(A)

¹⁸ But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city will be handed over to the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape from them.’”