Jeremiah 32:4
And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
Jeremiah 32:4 was uttered in the closing years of Judah's apostasy, when the Chaldean armies came for the third and last time to besiege Jerusalem and hope had fled from every heart. It belonged to Jeremiah's prediction of utter ruin for the city, with the insistent counsel that Jerusalem surrender to Babylon. Central to that prediction was the certainty that Zedekiah would be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Because of that insistence Jeremiah was thrown into prison and kept under close surveillance by those who scorned his messages. Yet even in prison God did not leave the faithful remnant still in the city to hopeless despair. Through Jeremiah He gave fresh revelations of Heaven's willingness to forgive and to save, revelations that have been an unfailing source of comfort to the church ever since.