17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city 1 of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!
19:12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground.
The east wind 2 dried up its fruit;
its strong branches broke off and withered –
a fire consumed them.
1 tn Heb “place.”
2 sn The east wind symbolizes the Babylonians.