1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedeki´ah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrez´zar.
2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
3 For Zedeki´ah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
4 and Zedeki´ah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chalde´ans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
5 and he shall lead Zedeki´ah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the Lord: though ye fight with the Chalde´ans, ye shall not prosper?