1The word which came unto Jeremiah from Yahuah (LORD), when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
2Enquire, I pray you, of Yahuah (LORD) for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us; if so be that Yahuah (LORD) will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
3Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah:
4Thus says Yahuah Elohim (the LORD God) of Yashar'el (Israel); Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith you 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.
5And 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.
6And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
7And afterward, says Yahuah (LORD), I will deliver Zedekiah king of Yahudah (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.
8And unto this people you shall say, Thus says Yahuah (LORD); Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
9He that abides in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goes out, and falls to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
10For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahuah (LORD): it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
11And touching the house of the king of Yahudah (Judah), say, Hear you the word of Yahuah (LORD);
12O house of David, thus says Yahuah (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.
13Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, says Yahuah (LORD); which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
14But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahuah (LORD): and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.