in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.

‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.