1. Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
2. Thus hath said the Lord that makes it, the Lord that forms it to establish it; the Lord is his name;
3. Call unto me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and difficult things, which thou dost not know.
4. For thus hath the Lord the God of Israel said concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the siege engines and by the sword
5. (because they came to fight with the Chaldeans, to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury and because I hid my face from this city due to all her wickedness):