Jerusalem Struck Down

²¹ In the ^(A)twelfth year ^(B)of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, ^(C)a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, ^(D)“The city has been struck down.” ^22 (E)Now ^(F)the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.