²⁴ Look! With siege ramparts+ men have come to the city to capture it,+ and the very city will certainly be given into the hand of the Chal·de′ans who are fighting against it,+ because of the sword+ and the famine+ and the pestilence;+ and what you have said has happened, and here you are seeing [it].+

⁴ Finally it came about in the ninth year of his being king,+ in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Neb·u·chad·rez′zar the king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem,+ and they began to camp against her and to build against her a siege wall all around.+

³ And as for you, take to yourself an iron griddle, and you must put it as an iron wall between you and the city, and you must fix your face against it, and it must get to be in a siege, and you must besiege it. It is a sign to the house of Israel.+