² The Lord sent Babylonian,^[a](A) Aramean,^(B) Moabite and Ammonite raiders^(C) against him to destroy^(D) Judah, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by his servants the prophets.^(E)

¹¹ But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded^(A) this land, we said, ‘Come, we must go to Jerusalem^(B) to escape the Babylonian^[a] and Aramean armies.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”

²⁷ So the Lord said, “I will remove^(A) Judah also from my presence^(B) as I removed Israel, and I will reject^(C) Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’^[a]”

²⁸ Therefore this is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar^(A) king of Babylon, who will capture it.^(B)

⁹ I will summon^(A) all the peoples of the north^(B) and my servant^(C) Nebuchadnezzar^(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^(F) and an everlasting ruin.^(G)

¹² Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster^(A) on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.^{(B) 13} I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line^(C) used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe^(D) out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴ I will forsake^(E) the remnant^(F) of my inheritance and give them into the hands of enemies. They will be looted and plundered by all their enemies;

¹⁷ The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon.^(A) Nothing will be left, says the Lord.

²³ So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands^(A) from Aram stopped raiding Israel’s territory.