And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
I will spread my net upon him - (Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 32:3). God entraps him as he had tried to entrap others (Psalms 7:15).
I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there - by judgments on him, bereaving him of sight (Ezekiel 20:36). This was spoken at least upwards of three years before the fall of Jerusalem, somewhere in the interval between the sixth month of the sixth year and the fifth month of the seventh year of Zedekiah's reign; or, what is tantamount, Jehoiachin's captivity (cf. Ezekiel 8:1 with Ezekiel 20:1).