¹⁷Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord ^aGod of hosts, the ^bGod of Israel, ‘If you will indeed ^cgo out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then ¹you will live, this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household will ²survive.

¹⁸‘But if you will ^anot go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city ^bwill be given over to the hand of the Chaldeans; and they will burn it with fire, and ^cyou yourself will not escape from their hand.’ ”

¹⁹Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I ^adread the Jews who have ¹^bgone over to the Chaldeans, for they may give me over into their hand and they will ^cabuse me.”

²⁰But Jeremiah said, “They will not give you over. Please ¹^aobey the Lord in what I am saying to you, that it may go ^bwell with you and ²^cyou may live.

²¹“But if you keep refusing to go out, this is the word which the Lord has shown me:

²²‘Then behold, all of the ^awomen who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the ¹officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say,

“²Your close friends

Have misled and overpowered you;

While your feet were sunk in the mire,

They turned back.”

²³‘They will also bring out all your wives and your ^asons to the Chaldeans, and ^byou yourself will not escape from their hand, but will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned with fire.’ ”

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Footnotes

1Lit your soul
2Lit live
1Lit fallen
1Lit listen to the voice of
2Lit your soul
1Or princes
2Lit The men of your peace

Cross references

a Ps 80:7, 14; Amos 5:27
b 1 Chr 17:24; Ezek 8:4
c 2 Kin 24:12; 25:27–30; Jer 21:8–10; 27:12, 17; 38:2; 39:3
a Jer 27:8
b 2 Kin 25:4–10; Jer 24:8–10; 32:3–5; 37:8; 38:3
c Jer 32:4; 34:3
a Is 51:12, 13; 57:11; John 12:42; 19:12, 13
b Jer 39:9
c 2 Chr 30:10; Neh 4:1; Jer 38:22
a 2 Chr 20:20; Jer 11:4, 8; 26:13; Dan 4:27; Acts 26:29
b Jer 7:23
c Gen 19:20; Is 55:3
a Jer 6:12; 8:10; 43:6
a 2 Kin 25:7; Jer 39:6; 41:10
b Jer 38:18