¹⁶ These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,^(A)

Thanksgiving and Praise

² in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.^(A)

⁴ And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and they laid siege to it; they built siegeworks against it all around.^(A)

³ and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and practice abstinence in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”^(A)

⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?^(A)