³and the Lord has brought it on and done just as He promised. Because you people ^asinned against the Lord and did not listen to His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you.

⁴“But now, behold, I am ^afreeing you today from the chains which are on your hands. If ¹you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come along, and I will ²look after you; but if ³you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, ⁴never mind. Look, the ^bwhole land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right for you to go.”

⁵As ¹Jeremiah was still not going back, ²he said, “Go on back then to ^aGedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has ^bappointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people; or else go anywhere it seems right for you to go.” So the captain of the bodyguard gave him a ^cration and a ^dgift and let him go.

⁶Then Jeremiah went to ^aMizpah to ^bGedaliah the son of Ahikam and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

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Footnotes

1Lit it is good in your eyes
2Lit set my eyes on
3Lit it is evil in your eyes
4Lit refrain!
1Lit he
2I.e. Nebuzaradan

Cross references

a Lev 26:14–38; Deut 28:15–68; 29:24–28; 31:17; 32:19–25; Jer 22:8, 9
a Jer 50:7; Dan 9:11; Rom 2:5
a Jer 39:11, 12
b Gen 13:9; 20:15; 47:6
a Jer 39:14
b 2 Kin 25:23
c Jer 52:34
d 2 Kin 8:7–9
a Judg 20:1; 21:1; 1 Sam 7:5; 2 Chr 16:6
b Jer 39:14