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Jeremiah

1 The word which came unto Jeremi­ah from the LORD, when king Zedeki­ah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchi­ah, and Zepha­ni­ah the son of Maa­seiah the priest, say­ing, 2 En­quire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Neb­uchadrez­zar king of Baby­lon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us ac­cord­ing to all his won­drous works, that he may go up from us. 3 Then said Jeremi­ah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedeki­ah: 4 Thus saith the LORD God of Is­rael; Be­hold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, where­with ye fight against the king of Baby­lon, and against the Chaldeans, which be­siege you with­out the walls, and I will as­sem­ble them into the midst of this city. 5 And I my­self will fight against you with an out­stretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. 6 And I will smite the in­hab­i­tants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pesti­lence. 7 And af­ter­ward, saith the LORD, I will de­liv­er Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah, and his ser­vants, and the peo­ple, and such as are left in this city from the pesti­lence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Neb­uchadrez­zar king of Baby­lon, and into the hand of their en­e­mies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nei­ther have pity, nor have mer­cy. 8 And unto this peo­ple thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Be­hold, I set be­fore you the way of life, and the way of death. 9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pesti­lence: but he that goeth out, and fal­l­eth to the Chaldeans that be­siege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. 10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be giv­en into the hand of the king of Baby­lon, and he shall burn it with fire. 11 And touch­ing the house of the king of Ju­dah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD; 12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Ex­e­cute judg­ment in the morn­ing, and de­liv­er him that is spoiled out of the hand of the op­pres­sor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, be­cause of the evil of your do­ings. 13 Be­hold, I am against thee, O in­hab­i­tant of the val­ley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall en­ter into our habi­ta­tions? 14 But I will pun­ish you ac­cord­ing to the fruit of your do­ings, saith the LORD: and I will kin­dle a fire in the for­est there­of, and it shall de­vour all things round about it.