Jeremiah 21:1-7 ▼

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, by King Zedekiah sending to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, saying:

2 “Inquire for us, please, of YHWH, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps YHWH will deal with us according to all His wonderful deeds, and he will go away from us.

3 And Jeremiah said to them, “Thus you? shall say to Zedekiah:

4 Thus says YHWH God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your? hands, with which you? will be fighting against the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans setting up siege against you? from outside the walls. And I will gather them in the midst of this city.

5 And I will fight against you? with an outstretched hand and with a mighty arm, and in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

6 And I will strike those dwelling in this city, both man and beast; by a great pestilence they will die!’

7 ‘And after thus,’ a declaration of YHWH, ‘I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those left over in this city from the pestilence and 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 those seeking their soul. And he will strike them with the mouth of the sword; he will not spare them, and he will not have pity, and he will not have compassion.