The Sovereign LORD says, "As surely as I am the living God, I will punish him for breaking the treaty which he swore in my name to keep.

Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had forced him to swear in God's name that he would be loyal. He stubbornly refused to repent and return to the LORD, the God of Israel.

"As for King Zedekiah of Judah, the politicians around him, and the rest of the people of Jerusalem who have stayed in this land or moved to Egypt---I, the LORD, will treat them all like these figs that are too bad to be eaten.

King Zedekiah sinned against the LORD, just as King Jehoiakim had done.

The visions that you see are false, and the predictions you make are lies. You are wicked and evil, and your day is coming, the day of your final punishment. The sword is going to fall on your necks.

It's all over. This is the end. You are finished.

The day is near, the day when the LORD will act, A day of clouds and trouble for the nations.

"You were Israel's constant enemy and let her people be slaughtered in the time of her disaster, the time of final punishment for her sins.

You are a righteous God and judge our thoughts and desires. Stop the wickedness of evildoers and reward those who are good.

You have condemned the heathen and destroyed the wicked; they will be remembered no more.

Our enemies are finished forever; you have destroyed their cities, and they are completely forgotten.

That country has many rivers and rich treasures, but its time is up, and its thread of life is cut.