Jer 21
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THE WORD THAT CAME FROM THE LORD TO JEREMIAS, WHEN KING SEDEKIAS SENT TO HIM PASCHOR
THE SON OF MELCHIAS, AND SOPHONIAS SON OF BASAEAS, THE PRIEST, SAYING,
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Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the
Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and the king shall depart from
us.
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And Jeremias said to them, Thus shall you say to Sedekias king of Juda,
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Thus says the Lord; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war wherewith you fight
against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather
them into the midst of this city.
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And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with
anger and great anger.
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And I will smite all the dwellers in this city, both men and cattle, with grievous
Lit. death pestilence: and they shall die.
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And after this, thus says the Lord; I will give Sedekias king of Juda, and his servants,
and the people that is left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine,
and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies, that seek their lives: and they
shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them, and I
will not have compassion upon them.
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And you shall say to this people, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I have set before you
the way of life, and the way of death.
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He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he who goes
forth to Or, go over to; Alex. proscwrhsai advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall
be
to him for a spoil, and he shall live.
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For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall be delivered
into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire.
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O house of the king of Juda, hear you the word of the Lord.
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O house of David, thus says the Lord; Judge judgement in the morning, and act rightly,
and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him whom wrongs him, lest mine anger be
kindled like fire, and it Gr. shall burn burn, and there be none to quench it.
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Behold, I am against you that dwell in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, even
against them that say, Who shall alarm us? or who shall enter into our habitation?
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And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round
about it.