The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;

And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.

For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.

Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

He hath

He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.

For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two roads, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.

Son of man, put down in writing this very day: The king of Babylon let loose the weight of his attack against Jerusalem on this very day.

For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

They

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.

Then they put shame on him, and were cruel to him: and some gave him blows, saying,

And they put shame on him, and gave him blows on the head with the rod.

When he said this, one of the police by his side gave him a blow with his open hand, saying, Do you give such an answer to the high priest?

And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.

And the high priest, Ananias, gave orders to those who were near him to give him a blow on the mouth.

You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

Judge

And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.

And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

General references

And they put shame on him, and gave him blows on the head with the rod.

And some put shame on him and, covering his face, gave him blows and said to him, Now say what is to come: and the captains took him and gave him blows with their hands.