“King Zedekiah said.
‘Why do you prophesy?
Why do you say this?
Thus says Yahweh.
I am going to
Give this city
Into the hand
Of the king
Of Babylon,
He shall take it. King Zedekiah
Of Judah
Shall not escape
Out of the hand
Of the Chaldeans.
But he shall surely
Be given
Into the hands
Of the king
Of Babylon.
He shall speak
With him
Face to face.
He shall see him
Eye to eye. He shall take King Zedekiah
To Babylon.
There he shall remain
Until I attend to him.
Though you fight
Against the Chaldeans,
You shall not succeed
Says Yahweh.’”
King Zedekiah was upset at Jeremiah. He wanted to know why he was prophesying that Yahweh had told him that the Babylonians and Chaldeans would be successful. Why did he say that the city of Jerusalem would fall. That was a morale killer. Jeremiah prophesized that King Zedekiah would be captured and sent off to exile in Babylon. The king would get to see King Nebuchadnezzar face to face and eye to eye, since he was not going to be successful, despite the help from the Egyptians.
