Jeremiah 43:8–13

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in ^yTahpanhes: ⁹“Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in ^yTahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah, ¹⁰and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^zmy servant, ^aand I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them. ¹¹He shall come ^band strike the land of Egypt, ^cgiving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword. ^12dI shall kindle a fire ^ein the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them ^fand carry them away captive. ^gAnd he shall clean the land of Egypt ^gas a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace. ¹³He shall break the ^hobelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, ^eand the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’ ”