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Jeremiah 21

21 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malkijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, 2 “Please inquire of Yahweh on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is fighting against us. Perhaps Yahweh will do with us according to all his wonders, and he will withdraw from upon us.”

3 And Jeremiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to Zedekiah: 4 ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: “Behold, I am turning back the weapons of war that are in your hand, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging against you from outside the wall, and I will gather them to the middle of this city. 5 And I, I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, and in nose and in wrath and in great fury. 6 And I will strike the dwellers of this city, both man and beast. They will die by a great plague. 7 And afterward’—the declaration of Yahweh—‘I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people and the ones remaining in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of the seekers of their life. And he will strike them to the mouth of the sword. He will not pity them, and he will not spare, and he will not have compassion.’

8 And to this people you will say, ‘Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am giving to your faces the way of life and the way of death. 9 The one dwelling in this city will die by the sword and by the famine and by the plague. But the one going out and falling upon the Chaldeans who are besieging against you will live, and his life will be to him for spoil. 10 For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good’—the declaration of Yahweh—‘into the hand of the king of Babylon it will be given, and he will burn it with fire.’ ”

11 “And to the house of the king of Judah, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh.

12 House of David, thus says Yahweh, “Execute judgement with justice in the morning,

and rescue the one who is being robbed from the hand of the oppressor,

lest my wrath go out like fire and burn,

and there is no one quenching it,

from the face of the evil of their deeds.

13 Behold, I am against you, dweller of the valley,

rock of the plateau”—the declaration of Yahweh—

“the ones saying, ‘Who will come down upon us,

and who will enter into our dwellings?’

14 And I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your deeds”—the declaration of Yahweh—

“and I will kindle a fire in her forest,

and it will consume all her surroundings.”