Jeremiah
God smiles at those who would abase him. Open the gates, open thy heart to humbleness.
Zedekiah
Nebuchadnezzar would enter the holy of holies which none may approach.
Jeremiah
God will avert it, should it be his will; thou canst not avert it. Open the gates, open thy heart to humbleness.
Zedekiah
[Angrily] Thy wisdom is stubbornness; thy counsel, insolence. With deaf ears dost thou hearken, and thine answer is hard as flint.
Jeremiah
Am I to laud thy blindness, to approve whate’er thou sayest? Feigning to ask counsel, thou wouldst have naught but flattery. May my tongue consume away in my mouth, my bones fall apart, ere I praise thy folly and cease from crying against thy blindness.