Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When the commander of the guard found Jeremiah, he said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster for this place. New Living Translation The captain of the guard called for Jeremiah and said, "The LORD your God has brought this disaster on this land, English Standard Version The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God pronounced this disaster against this place. Berean Study Bible The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place, New American Standard Bible Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God promised this calamity against this place; King James Bible And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. Christian Standard Bible The captain of the guards took Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place, Contemporary English Version Nebuzaradan said: Jeremiah, the LORD your God warned your people that he would bring disaster on this land. Good News Translation The commanding officer took me aside and said, "The LORD your God threatened this land with destruction, Holman Christian Standard Bible The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place, International Standard Version The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and told him, "The LORD your God has predicted this disaster on this place. NET Bible The captain of the royal guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, "The LORD your God threatened this place with this disaster. New Heart English Bible The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, "The LORD your God pronounced this evil on this place; GOD'S WORD® Translation The captain of the guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, "The LORD your God threatened to bring this disaster on this place. JPS Tanakh 1917 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him: 'The LORD thy God pronounced this evil upon this place; New American Standard 1977 Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, “ The LORD your God promised this calamity against this place; Jubilee Bible 2000 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God has pronounced this evil upon this place. King James 2000 Bible And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil upon this place. American King James Version And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil on this place. American Standard Version And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place; Brenton Septuagint Translation And the chief captain of the guard took him, and said to him, The Lord thy God has pronounced all these evils upon this place: Douay-Rheims Bible And the general of the army taking Jeremias, said to him: The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place, Darby Bible Translation And the captain of the body-guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place, English Revised Version And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, the LORD thy God pronounced this evil upon this place: Webster's Bible Translation And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. World English Bible The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place; Young's Literal Translation And the chief of the executioners taketh Jeremiah, and saith unto him, 'Jehovah thy God hath spoken this evil concerning this place, Study Bible Jeremiah Remains in Judah1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon. 2The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place, 3and now the LORD has fulfilled it; He has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, this thing has happened to you.… Cross References Leviticus 26:14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: Deuteronomy 29:24 All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?' Deuteronomy 31:17 On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, 'Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?' Deuteronomy 32:19 When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters. Jeremiah 22:8 And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?' Jeremiah 22:9 Then people will reply, 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.' Jeremiah 50:7 All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.' Jeremiah 52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left behind the rest of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and farmers. Treasury of Scripture And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil on this place. The Lord. Jeremiah 22:8,9 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city? … Deuteronomy 29:24-28 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? … 1 Kings 9:8,9 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? … Lexicon The captainרַב־ (raḇ-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 7227: Much, many, great of the guard טַבָּחִ֖ים (ṭab·bā·ḥîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 2876: A butcher, a lifeguardsman, a cook found וַיִּקַּ֥ח (way·yiq·qaḥ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take Jeremiah לְיִרְמְיָ֑הוּ (lə·yir·mə·yā·hū) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3414: Jeremiah -- 'Yah loosens', the name of a number of Israelites and said וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say to him, אֵלָ֔יו (’ê·lāw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to “The LORD יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative decreed דִּבֶּר֙ (dib·ber) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue this הַזֹּ֔את (haz·zōṯ) Article | Pronoun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, disaster הָרָעָ֣ה (hā·rā·‘āh) Article | Adjective - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil on אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to this הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2088: This, that place, הַמָּק֖וֹם (ham·mā·qō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition 40:1-6 The captain of the guard seems to glory that he had been God's instrument to fulfil, what Jeremiah had been God's messenger to foretell. Many can see God's justice and truth with regard to others, who are heedless and blind as to themselves and their own sins. But, sooner or later, all men shall be made sensible that their sin is the cause of all their miseries. Jeremiah has leave to dispose of himself; but is advised to go to Gedaliah, governor of the land under the king of Babylon. It is doubtful whether Jeremiah acted right in this decision. But those who desire the salvation of sinners, and the good of the church, are apt to expect better times from slight appearances, and they will prefer the hope of being useful, to the most secure situations without it. 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