² And the captain of the armed men took Jeremiah and said to him, The Lord your God gave word of the evil which was to come on this place:

⁷ Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;