The gates of the towns in southern Judah will be shut tight. No one will be able to go in or out of them. All Judah will be carried off into exile. They will be completely carried off into exile.’”

南方的城尽都关闭，无人开放；犹大全被掳掠，且掳掠净尽。

尼革夫的城镇都被关闭，无人打开；犹大全被掳掠，掳掠净尽。

尼革夫的城镇都被关闭，无人打开；犹大全被掳掠，掳掠净尽。

南部的城邑将被围困，无人能解围，犹大人都要被掳，无一幸免。

南地的城市已被围困，没有人能解围；整个犹大都被掳走，全被掳去了。

南方的城盡都關閉，無人開放；猶大全被擄掠，且擄掠淨盡。

尼革夫的城鎮都被關閉，無人打開；猶大全被擄掠，擄掠淨盡。

尼革夫的城鎮都被關閉，無人打開；猶大全被擄掠，擄掠淨盡。

南部的城邑將被圍困，無人能解圍，猶大人都要被擄，無一倖免。

南地的城市已被圍困，沒有人能解圍；整個猶大都被擄走，全被擄去了。

南地的城市盡都關閉，無人給開；猶大盡都流亡，全部流亡。

南方諸邑既閉、無人啟之、猶大被虜、全族被虜矣、○

南方之邑、將閉不啟、猶大遍地、民人被虜、靡有孑遺。

南地諸城俱閉、無人啟之、猶大人被擄、被擄淨盡、

The cities in the Negev will be shut up, and there will be no one to open them. All Judah will be carried into exile, carried completely away.

The gates of the cities in the Negev Desert will be shut tight. There won’t be anyone to open them. Everyone in Judah will be carried away as prisoners. You will be completely taken away.

The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.

The towns of the Negev will close their gates, and no one will be able to open them. The people of Judah will be taken away as captives. All will be carried into exile.

The cities of the Negev are under siege; no one can help them. All of Judah has been taken into exile, taken completely into exile.

The cities of the Negev have been locked up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been taken into exile, Wholly taken into exile.

The cities of the South shall be shut up, And no one shall open them; Judah shall be carried away captive, all of it; It shall be wholly carried away captive.

The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.

The cities of the Negev are under siege; no one can help them. All of Judah has been taken into exile, taken completely into exile.

The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open[ them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

The cities of the South is shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of it. It is wholly carried away captive.

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile away from its land.

They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse– those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him.

in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4, 600 people went into exile.

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

I, the Lord, say that shepherds will once again count their sheep as they pass into the fold. They will do this in all the towns in the southern hill country, the western foothills, the southern hill country, the territory of Benjamin, the villages surrounding Jerusalem, and the towns of Judah.’

“ Son of man, turn toward the south, and speak out against the south. Prophesy against the open scrub land of the Negev,and say to the scrub land of the Negev,‘ Hear the word of the LORD: This is what the sovereign LORD says: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

Then people will come here from the towns in Judah, from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin, from the western foothills, from the southern hill country, and from the southern part of Judah. They will come bringing offerings to the temple of the LORD: burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incense along with their thank offerings.

Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.

“ But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next.In the morning you will say,‘ If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say,‘ I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.Then the LORD will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

For the LORD says,‘ I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword.

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.