Jeremiah 38:17-23
Interview with Zedekiah
17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord (A)God of hosts, the (B)God of Israel, ‘If you will indeed (C)go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then (a)you will live, this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household will (b)survive.
18 But if you will (D)not go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city (E)will be given over to the hand of the Chaldeans; and they will burn it with fire, and (F)you yourself will not escape from their hand.’”
19 Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I (G)dread the Jews who have (c)(H)gone over to the Chaldeans, for they may give me over into their hand and they will (I)abuse me.”
20 But Jeremiah said, “They will not give you over. Please (d)(J)obey the Lord in what I am saying to you, that it may go (K)well with you and (e)(L)you 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 (M)women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the (f)officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say,
“(g)Your close friends
Have misled and overpowered you;
While your feet were sunk in the mire,
They turned back.”
Have misled and overpowered you;
While your feet were sunk in the mire,
They turned back.”
Footnotes:
a.
Jeremiah 38:17: ['Lit ', your soul]
b.
Jeremiah 38:17: ['Lit ', live]
c.
Jeremiah 38:19: ['Lit ', fallen]
d.
Jeremiah 38:20: ['Lit ', listen to the voice of]
e.
Jeremiah 38:20: ['Lit ', your soul]
f.
Jeremiah 38:22: ['Or ', princes]
g.
Jeremiah 38:22: ['Lit ', The men of your peace]