1. While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time:
2. “The Lord who made the earth, the Lord who forms it to establish it, Yahweh is His name, says this:
3. Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.
4. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and the palaces of Judah’s kings, the ones torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword: