Ezekiel

¹¹Then the word of the Lord came to me: ¹²“Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon. ¹³He took one from the royal family, made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. He then took the leaders of the land ¹⁴so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand. ¹⁵But this one from Israel’s royal family rebelled against the king of Babylon by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape? ¹⁶“‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die! ¹⁷Pharaoh with his great army and mighty horde will not help him in battle, when siege ramps are erected and siege-walls are built to kill many people.