¹ Judo karaliaus Sedekijo devintųjų metų dešimtą mėnesį Babilono karalius Nebukadnecaras ir visa jo kariuomenė atėjo ir apgulė Jeruzalę.

² Vienuoliktaisiais Zedekijo metais, ketvirto mėnesio devintą dieną miesto siena buvo pralaužta.

³ Visi Babilono karaliaus kunigaikščiai suėjo ir susėdo prie viduriniųjų vartų: Nergal Sareceras, Samgar Nebas, Sarsechimas, absaris, Nergal Sareceras, abmagas ir visi kiti Babilono karaliaus kunigaikščiai.

⁴ Judo karalius Zedekijas ir visi kariai, pamatę juos, bėgo pro karaliaus sodą tarp dviejų sienų, palikdami miestą nakties metu. Jie traukėsi lygumos keliu.

⁵ Chaldėjų kariuomenė sekė juos ir pasivijo Zedekiją Jericho lygumose. Jie suėmė jį ir atgabeno pas Babilono karalių Nebukadnecarą į iblą Hamato krašte. Karalius čia jį teisė.

⁶ Jis nužudė Zedekijo sūnus tėvo akivaizdoje, taip pat visus Judo kilminguosius.

⁷ Be to, išlupo Zedekijui akis, surakino grandinėmis ir išgabeno jį į Babiloną.

⁸ Chaldėjai sudegino karaliaus namus, žmonių namus ir nugriovė Jeruzalės sienas.

⁹ Nebuzaradanas, sargybos viršininkas, ištrėmė į Babiloną mieste likusius gyventojus, tuos, kurie perbėgo pas jį, ir amatininkus.

¹⁰ Bet Nebuzaradanas, sargybos viršininkas, paliko krašte kai kuriuos beturčius ir davė jiems vynuogynų ir žemės.

¹¹ Nebukadnecaras, Babilono karalius, davė įsakymą sargybos viršininkui Nebuzaradanui apie Jeremiją:

¹² “Paimk jį, prižiūrėk ir nedaryk jam nieko blogo, bet padaryk jam, kaip jis pats panorės”.

¹³ Nebuzaradanas, sargybos viršininkas, Nebušazbanas, absaris, Nergal Sareceras, abmagas ir visi kiti Babilono karaliaus kunigaikščiai

¹⁴ pasiuntė ir atgabeno Jeremiją iš sargybos kiemo. Jie patikėjo jį Gedolijui, sūnui Ahikamo, sūnaus Šafano, kad jį globotų. Taip Jeremijas liko gyventi savo tautoje.

¹⁵ Jeremijui dar esant sargybos kieme, Viešpats tarė:

¹⁶ “Eik ir kalbėk etiopui Ebed Melechui: ‘Aš išpildysiu savo žodžius šito miesto nelaimei, o ne gerovei, ir tu pats savo akimis matysi juos išsipildant.

¹⁷ Bet tą dieną Aš tave išgelbėsiu ir tu nebūsi atiduotas į rankas tų žmonių, kurių bijai.

¹⁸ Tu nekrisi nuo kardo ir tavo gyvybė atiteks tau kaip grobis, nes pasitikėjai manimi,­sako Viešpats’ ”.

⁵ Aš pasiųsiu ugnį į Judą, ir ji sudegins Jeruzalės rūmus”.

¹ Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

² You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

³ I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

⁴ But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

⁵ The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."

⁶ Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.

⁷ Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

⁸ Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

⁹ "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"

¹⁰ Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

¹¹ Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

¹² For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

¹³ Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

¹⁴ Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

¹⁵ Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.

¹⁶ You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and behold, until now you haven't listened.

¹⁷ Thus says Yahweh, "In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

¹⁸ The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"

¹⁹ Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

²⁰ Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

²¹ The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

²² The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

²³ Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.

²⁴ All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.

²⁵ Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.