This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will te