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Jerusalem was then under siege from the Babylonian army, and Jeremiah was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace. King Zedekiah had put him there, asking why he kept giving this prophecy: “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will take it. King Zedekiah will be captured by the Babylonians[a] and taken to meet the king of Babylon face to face.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:4 Or Chaldeans; also in 32:5, 24, 25, 28, 29, 43.

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