021:005 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand
and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation.
021:006 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal:
they shall die of a great pestilence.
021:007 Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah,
and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this
city from the pestilence, 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 who seek their life:
and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword;
he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
021:008 To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set
before you the way of life and the way of death.
021:009 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword,
and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out,
and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live,
and his life shall be to him for a prey.
021:010 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,
says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
021:011 Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of Yahweh:
021:012 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning,
and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,
lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can
quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
021:013 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,
[and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say,
Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter
into our habitations?
021:014 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,
says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it
shall devour all that is round about her.
022:001 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah,
and speak there this word,
022:002 Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on
the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people
who enter in by these gates.
022:003 Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness,
and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor:
and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless,
nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
022:004 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by
the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David,
riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people.
022:005 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,
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