“The word
That came to Jeremiah
From Yahweh,
When King Nebuchadnezzar
Of Babylon,
With all his army,
As well as all
The kingdoms of the earth,
All the people
Under his dominion,
Were fighting
Against Jerusalem
With all of its cities.”
Once again, the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, but there is a different setting, the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem in 588 BCE. King Nebuchadnezzar was going to fight against Jerusalem, as well as the towns and cities around it. At this point, the Babylonian king had a lot of people under him with a huge army. Besides his own army, other kingdoms under his control were also fighting with him against Jerusalem. Like the preceding chapter, this is a different numbered chapter in the Greek translation of the Septuagint, chapter 41, not chapter 34 as here.
