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Jeremiah 21:1-22:9

Jerusalem's defeat predicted. (Jr.21.1-10)

21¹The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh when King Zedekiah sent Pashhur son of Malchiah to him, with the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, to say this, ²'Please consult Yahweh for us, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war on us: perhaps Yahweh will work one of his many miracles for us and force him to withdraw.' ³Jeremiah said to them, 'Take this answer to Zedekiah, ⁴'Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: I shall bring back the weapons of war which you are now carrying, and with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans now besieging you; from outside the walls, I shall stack them in the centre of this city. ⁵And I shall fight against you myself with outstretched hand and mighty arm, in anger, fury and great wrath. ⁶I shall strike down the inhabitants of this city, human and animal; they will die of a great plague. ⁷Then, Yahweh declares, I shall deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, the people and those of this city who have escaped the plague, the sword, or the famine, into the clutches of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the clutches of their enemies and into the clutches of those determined to kill them; mercilessly, relentlessly, pitilessly, he will put them to the sword.' ⁸'And you must say to this people, 'Yahweh says this: Look, I offer you a choice between the way of life and the way of death. ⁹Anyone who stays in this city will die by sword, by famine, or by plague; but anyone who leaves it and surrenders to the Chaldaeans now besieging you will live; he will escape with his life. ¹⁰For I am determined on disaster, and not prosperity, for this city, Yahweh declares. It will be handed over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.' '

Jusgement on the royal house of Judah. (Jr.21.11-14)

¹¹To the royal House of Judah. Listen to the word of Yahweh, ¹²House of David! Yahweh says this:

Each morning give fair judgement,
rescue anyone who has been wronged
from the hands of his oppressor,
or else my wrath will leap out like a fire,
it will burn and no one will be able to quench it,
because of the wickedness of your actions.
¹³My quarrel is with you, resident of the valley,
Rock-in-the-Plain,
Yahweh declares,
with you that say, 'Who would dare attack us and enter our lairs?'
¹⁴I shall punish you as your actions deserve,
Yahweh declares,
I shall set fire to its forest
and it will devour all around it.

Jeremiah's message to the royal house of Judah. (Jr.22.1-9)

22¹Yahweh said this, 'Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and there say this word, ²'Listen to the word of Yahweh, king of Judah now occupying the throne of David, you, your officials and your people who go through these gates. ³Yahweh says this: Act uprightly and justly; rescue from the hands of the oppressor anyone who has been wronged, do not exploit or ill-treat the stranger, the orphan, the widow; shed no innocent blood in this place. ⁴For if you are scrupulous in obeying this command, then kings occupying the throne of David will continue to make their entry through the gates of this palace riding in chariots or on horseback, they, their officials and their people. ⁵But if you do not listen to these words, then I swear by myself, Yahweh declares, this palace shall become a ruin! ⁶'Yes, this is what Yahweh says about the palace of the king of Judah:

You are like Gilead to me,
like a peak of Lebanon.
All the same, I will reduce you to a desert,
to uninhabited towns.
⁷I dedicate men to destroy you,
each man with his weapons;
they will cut down your finest cedars
and throw them on the fire.

⁸'And when many nations pass this city, they will say to one another: Why has Yahweh treated this great city like this? ⁹And the answer will be: Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God to worship other gods and serve them.' '