⁴ Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.^{(A) 5} Pharaoh’s army had marched out of Egypt,^(B) and when the Babylonians^[a] who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew^(C) from Jerusalem.^(D)

⁶ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet: ⁷ “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire^(E) of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched^(F) out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.^(G)

¹⁵ But the king rebelled^(A) against him by sending his envoys to Egypt^(B) to get horses and a large army.^(C) Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the treaty and yet escape?^(D)

¹⁶ “‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, he shall die^(E) in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty he broke.^{(F) 17} Pharaoh^(G) with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps^(H) are built and siege works erected to destroy many lives.^(I)