KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 21
Zedekiah sends to Jeremiah to inquire about Nebuchadnezzar's war. Jeremiah pretells a hard siege and miserable captivity.
1The Word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah, when King Zedekiah sent Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to him, saying,
2Inquire now of Jehovah for us. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us. Perhaps Jehovah will do with us according to all His wonderful works, that he may go up from us.
3And Jeremiah said to them, You shall say this to Zedekiah,
4So says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war in your hand, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall. And I will gather them together in the midst of the city.
5And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched arm and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
6And I will strike those living in this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great plague.
7And afterward, a statement of Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who remain in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their lives. And he shall strike them with the mouth of the sword; he shall not spare them, and not have pity, and not have compassion.
8And you shall say to this people, So says Jehovah, Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
9He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague. But he who goes out and falls to the Chaldeans who are besieging you, he shall live, and his life shall be for a prize to him.
10For I have set My face against this city for evil, and not for good, a statement of Jehovah. It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
11And concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear the Word of Jehovah,
12O house of David, so says Jehovah: Judge justice for the morning, and deliver the one plundered out of the hand of the one oppressing, that My fury not go out like fire and burn so that no one can put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
13Behold, I am against you, one dwelling in the valley, rock of the plain, a statement of Jehovah, those who say, Who can come down against us? Or, Who can enter our dwellings?
14But I will call you to account according to the fruit of your doings, a statement of Jehovah. And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.
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