New Revised Standard Version
The towns of the Negeb are shut up with no one to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.

Contemporary English Version
The cities in the Southern Desert are surrounded; no one can get in or out. Everyone in Judah will be taken away.

New American Bible
The cities of the Negeb are besieged, with no one to relieve them; Judah is taken into exile—all of it— in total exile.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.

The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.

cities.

Jeremiah 17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Juda, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plains, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing holocausts, and victims, and sacrifices, and frankincense, and they shall bring in an offering into the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:13 And in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are towards the south: and in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda shall the flocks pass again under the hand of him that numbereth them, saith the Lord.

Joshua 18:5 Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in his bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.

Ezekiel 20:46,47 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field. . . .

shut.

Deuteronomy 28:52 And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee:

Job 12:14 If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

Judah.

Jeremiah 29:9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: and I have not sent them, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 52:27 And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in Reblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out of his land.

Leviticus 26:31-33 Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:15,64-68 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. . . .

2 Kings 25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha, in the land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land.