17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘If you will indeed go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, thenkyou will live, this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household willlsurvive. 18 But if you will not go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given over to the hand of the Chaldeans; and they will burn it with fire, and you yourself will not escape from their hand.’” 19 Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I dread the Jews who havemgone over to the Chaldeans, for they may give me over into their hand and they will abuse me.” 20 But Jeremiah said, “They will not give you over. Pleasenobey the LORD in what I am saying to you, that it may go well with you andoyou may live. 21 But if you keep refusing to go out, this is the word which the LORD has shown me: 22 ‘Then behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to thepofficers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say, “qYour close friends Have misled and overpowered you; While your feet were sunk in the mire, They turned back.” | 17 |
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