“The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,

The Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.

“Be broken, O peoples, and be

shattered;

And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

“A lion has gone up from his thicket,
And a destroyer of nations has set out;
He has gone out from his place
To make your land a waste.
Your cities will be ruins
Without inhabitant.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Proclaim this among the nations:

Prepare a war; rouse the mighty men!

Let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up!

“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
That fierce and impetuous people
Who march throughout the earth
To

seize dwelling places which are not theirs.

I heard and my inward parts trembled,
At the sound my lips quivered.
Decay enters my bones,
And in my place I tremble.
Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,

For the people to arise who will invade us.

He hath

Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the

household idols, he looks at the liver.

“Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

They

“They have gaped at me with their mouth,
They have

slapped me on the cheek with contempt;

They have massed themselves against me.

Let him give his cheek to the smiter,
Let him be filled with reproach.

But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

Then they spat in His face and beat Him with their fists; and others slapped Him,

They spat on Him, and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head.

When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby struck Jesus, saying, “Is that the way You answer the high priest?”

and they began to come up to Him and say, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and to give Him slaps in the face.

The high priest Ananias commanded those standing beside him to strike him on the mouth.

For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.

Judge

and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”

For the Lord is our judge,
The Lord is our lawgiver,
The Lord is our king;

He will save us—

“I will also cut off the

judge from her midst

And slay all her princes with him,” says the Lord.

General references

They spat on Him, and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head.

Some began to spit at Him, and

to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in the face.