21 In the ^ztwelfth year ^aof our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, ^ba fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, ^c“The city has been struck down.” 22 ^dNow ^ethe hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.