1. The Lord spoke to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.
2. “I, the Lord, do these things. I, the Lord, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the Lord. I say to you,
3. ‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.’
4. For I, the Lord God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians: