shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.
037:010 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans
who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men
among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent,
and burn this city with fire.
037:011 It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken
up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
037:012 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst
of the people.
037:013 When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard
was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah,
the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet,
saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.
037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to
the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid
hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
037:015 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him,
and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe;
for they had made that the prison.
037:016 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the cells,
and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him:
and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said,
Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is.
He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the
king of Babylon.
037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned
against you, or against your servants, or against this people,
that you have put me in prison?
037:019 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king
of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
037:020 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication
be presented before you, that you not cause me to return
to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah
into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf
of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread
in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court
of the guard.
038:001 Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah,
heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,
038:002 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;
but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his
life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.
038:003 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand
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