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Chapter
21
- 21:1
- The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah
the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
- 21:2
- Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD
will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that
he may go up from us.
- 21:3
- Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
- 21:4
- Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back
the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight
against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which
besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into
the midst of this city.
- 21:5
- And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched
hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and
in great wrath.
- 21:6
- And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
- 21:7
- And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king
of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are
left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from
the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge
of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor
have mercy.
- 21:8
- And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
- 21:9
- He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and
by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out,
and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live,
and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
- 21:10
- For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not
for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
- 21:11
- And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye
the word of the LORD;
- 21:12
- O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in
the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand
of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that
none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- 21:13
- Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and
rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come
down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
- 21:14
- But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,
saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof,
and it shall devour all things round about it.
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