8. The next morning, the word of the Lord came to me. He said,
9. “Son of man, did the people of Israel—those people who always refuse to obey—ask you what you were doing?
10. Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD said. This sad message is about the leader of Jerusalem and all the people of Israel who live there.
11. Tell them, ‘I am an example for all of you. What I have done will happen to you.’ You will be forced to go to a faraway country as prisoners.
12. And your leader will make a hole in the wall and sneak out at night. He will cover his face so that people will not recognize him. His eyes will not be able to see where he is going.
13. He will try to escape, but I will catch him! He will be caught in my trap. Then I will bring him to Babylonia—the land of the Chaldeans. But he will not be able to see where he is going.
14. I will force the king’s people to live in the foreign countries around Israel, and I will scatter his army to the winds. The enemy soldiers will chase after them.
15. Then they will know that I am the Lord. They will know that I scattered them among the nations. They will know that I forced them to go to other countries.