11 (NIV) Then the word of
the LORD came to me: 12 ÒSay to this rebellious house,
ÔDo you not know what these things mean?Õ Say to them: ÔThe king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and carried
off her king and her nobles, bringing them
back with him to Babylon. 13 Then he took a
member of the royal family and made a treaty with him, putting him under oath. He also carried away the
leading men of the land, 14 so that the kingdom
would be brought low, unable to rise again,
surviving only by keeping his treaty. 15 But the king rebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt to
get horses and a large army. Will he succeed?
Will he who does such things escape? Will he
break the treaty and yet escape?Õ 16 ÔAs surely as I live,Õ declares the Sovereign LORD, Ôhe shall die in
Babylon, in the land of the king who put him
on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty
he broke. 17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps
are built and siege works erected to destroy
many lives.ÕÓ