KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 37
The Egyptians having raised the siege of the Chaldeans, King Zedekiah asks Jeremiah to pray for the people. Jeremiah prophesies the Chaldeans' certain return and victory. He is taken for a fugitive, beaten, and put in prison.
1And King Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.
2But not he, and not his servants, and not the people of the land, listened to the words of Jehovah which He spoke by Jeremiah the prophet.
3And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Intercede now for us to Jehovah our God.
4And Jeremiah came in and went out among the people, for they had not put him into a house of imprisonment.
5And Pharaoh's army had come forth out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who besieged Jerusalem heard news of them, they went up from Jerusalem.
6And the Word of Jehovah was to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
7So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, You shall say this to the king of Judah who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to help you, shall turn back into his own land of Egypt.
8And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city, and they will take it and burn it with fire.
9So says Jehovah, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, Going the Chaldeans will go from us, for they shall not go.
10For though you had stricken the entire army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, yet they would rise up, each man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
11And it was when the army of the Chaldeans went up from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,
12even Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem, to go into the land of Benjamin to receive a portion from there in the midst of the people.
13And it happened, he being in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, and his name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling to the Chaldeans.
14And Jeremiah said, A lie! I am not falling to the Chaldeans. But he did not listen to him. And Irijah took Jeremiah and brought him to the rulers.
15And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah and struck him, and they put him in the house of binding, in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made it into a house of imprisonment.
16When Jeremiah had gone into the house of the pit, and into the cells, then Jeremiah remained there many days.
17And Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. And the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there Word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is. For He said, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
18And Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me into a house imprisonment?
19Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, or against this land?
20And now hear, please, O my lord the king, please let my plea fall before you, so that you do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I not die there.
21And Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him a piece of bread out of the baker's street daily, until all the bread of the city was gone. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day Jerusalem was taken, and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
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