Here is a message about Damascus: “Look, Damascus is no longer a city, it is a heap of ruins!

Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: ¹  What is the reason ²  that all of you go up to the rooftops?

“As for you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says concerning the Ammonites and their coming humiliation; ¹  say: “‘A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, ²  to flash like lightning –

I have great joy in the Lord because now at last you have again expressed your concern for me. (Now I know you were concerned before but had no opportunity to do anything.) ¹ 

On that day I will carry out ¹  against Eli everything that I spoke about his house – from start to finish!

For they were under royal orders ¹  which determined their activity day by day. ² 

¹ His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.

Here is a message about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans.

Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had issued orders concerning Jeremiah. He had passed them on through Nebuzaradan, the captain of his royal guard, ¹ 

The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah ¹  about the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. ² 

Early in the reign ¹  of King Zedekiah of Judah, the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam. ² 

Then ¹  beginning with Moses and all the prophets, ²  he interpreted to them the things written about ³  himself in all the scriptures.

concerning his Son who was a descendant ¹  of David with reference to the flesh, ² 

With regard to the collection for the saints, please follow the directions that I gave to the churches of Galatia: ¹ 

the firstborn Isshiah from Rehabiah and the sons of Rehabiah,

When Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps,

concerning sin, because ¹  they do not believe in me; ² 

The Lord spoke about Kedar ¹  and the kingdoms of Hazor ²  that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered. “Army of Babylon, ³  go and attack Kedar. Lay waste those who live in the eastern desert. ⁴ 

This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, ¹  the one who formed him, concerning things to come: ²  “How dare you question me ³  about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with ⁴  the work of my own hands!

After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.