14 “Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities+ and be silent there. For Jehovah our God* has himself put us to silence,*+ and he gives us poisoned water to drink,+ because we have sinned against Jehovah.

11 But it came about when Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon came up against the land+ that we began to say, ‘Come, and let us enter into Jerusalem because of the military force of the Chal·deʹans and because of the military force of the Syrians,* and let us dwell in Jerusalem.’”+