^{27 Ref} See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything so hard that I am unable to do it?

^{28 Ref} So this is what the Lord has said: See, I am giving this town into the hands of the Chaldaeans and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will take it:

^{29 Ref} And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

^{30 Ref} For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord.

^{31 Ref} For this town has been to me a cause of wrath and of burning passion from the day of its building till this day, so that I put it away from before my face: