JER-21:1  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,

JER-21:2  Inquire, 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.

JER-21:3  Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to

Zedekiah:

JER-21:4  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.

JER-21:5  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.

JER-21:6  And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both

man and beast:

they shall die of a great pestilence.

JER-21:7  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.

JER-21:8  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.

JER-21:9  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.

JER-21:10  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.

JER-21:11  And touching the house of the king of Judah, [say],

Hear ye the

word of the LORD;

JER-21:12  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.

JER-21:13  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?

JER-21:14  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.

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