Jeremiah 21

Thomson^{(i) 1} The word which came from the Lord to Jeremias when king Sedekias sent to him Paschor son of Melchias, and Sophonias son of Basaias the priest saying, ² Inquire of the Lord concerning us for the king of Babylon is come against us. Will the Lord do according to all his wonderous works that he may depart from us. ³ Thereupon Jeremias said to them, Thus shall you say to Sedekias king of Juda, ⁴ Thus saith the Lord, Behold I turn back the weapons of war with which you fight against the Chaldeans who have besieged you without the wall. And I will bring them into this city. ⁵ I myself indeed will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a strong arm, with wrath and with great indignation. ⁶ And I will smite all the inhabitants of this city, both men and beasts with a great pestilence, and they shall die. ⁷ And after that, saith the Lord, I will deliver Sedekias king of Juda and his servants and the people left in this city from the pestilence and from the famine and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, and they shall smite them with the edge of the sword. I will not spare them, nor will I have compassion on them. ⁸ And to this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I have set before you the way of life and the way of death. ⁹ He who abideth in this city, shall die by the sword and famine, but he who goeth out to the Chaldeans who have besieged you, he shall live. His life shall be given him for a spoil and he shall live. ¹⁰ For I have set my face against this city for evils and not for good. It shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire. ¹¹ With respect to the house of the king of Juda, hear a word of the Lord, ¹² O house of David. Thus saith the Lord, Administer judgment in the morning and relieve and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of him who wrongeth him, that my wrath may not be kindled like a fire and blaze so that none can quench it. ¹³ Behold I am against thee who inhabitest the vale of Sor; that plain; Them who say who can terrify us? Or who can come into our habitation? ¹⁴ And I will kindle a fire in its forests and it shall devour all things.