¹⁷Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘If only you will go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then you^g will live, and this city will not be burned with fire, and you will live, you and your house. ¹⁸But if you do not go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you will not escape from their hand.’ ”

¹⁹And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand and they abuse me.” ²⁰And Jeremiah said, “They will not give you over. Please obey the voice of Yahweh with regard to what I am saying to you, and it will go well with you, and you^h will live. ²¹But if you are refusing to surrender, this is the thing that Yahweh has shown me. ²²Now look, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah are being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon. And look, they are saying,

‘Your trusted friendsⁱ have misled you,

and they have prevailed against you.

Your feet are stuck in the mud,

so they turned backward.’

²³And all your wives and your children will be led out to the Chaldeans, and you will not escape from their hand, but by the hand of the king of Babylon you will be seized, and this city will burn with fire.”

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Footnotes

gLiterally “your life” or “your soul”
hLiterally “your life” or “your soul”
iLiterally “The men of your peace”