ECB(i)
17 And Yirme Yah says to Sidqi Yah, Thus says Yah Veh Elohim Sabaoth Elohim of Yisra El: If in going, you go to the governors of the sovereign of Babel, your soul lives, and this city is not burned with fire; and you live - and your house:
18 and if you go not to the governors of the sovereign of Babel, then this city is given into the hand of the Kesediym and they burn it with fire; and you escape not from their hand.
19 And Sidqi Yah the sovereign says to Yirme Yah, I am concerned for the Yah Hudiym who fell to the Kesediym; lest they give me into their hand and they exploit me.
20 And Yirme Yah says, They give you not. Hear, I beseech you, the voice of Yah Veh that I word to you: so it well-pleases you, and your soul lives.
21 And if you refuse to go, this is the word Yah Veh shows me:
22 and behold, they bring all the women who survive in the house of the sovereign of Yah Hudah to the governors of the sovereign of Babel; and they say, Your men of shalom goaded you and prevailed against you: your feet have sunk in the mire, and they apostatized backward.
23 And they bring all your women and your sons to the Kesediym: and you escape not from their hand, for you are apprehended by the hand of the sovereign of Babel: and this city is burned with fire.