1. Moreover the Lord’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,
2. “the Lord who does it, the Lord who forms it to establish it—the Lord is his name, says:
3. ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
4. For the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defence against the mounds and against the sword;