Jeremiah 32:5
And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper. And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
Armed opposition to the Chaldean siege was bound to fail, since the king himself would be carried off to Babylon and kept there until the time of divine visitation. The city therefore had no prospect of successful defense, and continued fighting could only prolong its suffering without changing its appointed end. The only course consistent with that certainty was surrender, for Jerusalem stood under sentence of ruin and submission was the path to sparing further destruction.
Jeremiah pressed that unwelcome counsel to yield with unyielding persistence, matching his prediction of the city's fall with a direct summons to give up resistance. His refusal to soften or withdraw the message, even under pressure to reverse it, brought him into direct conflict with those determined to fight on. That steadfast insistence on surrender as the divinely appointed outcome led to his imprisonment.