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Prophecy of Jeremias 997

into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall 28 But Jeremias remained in the entry of the
burn it with fire: and thou shalt not escape out prison, until the day that Jerusalem was taken:
of their hand. and it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken.
19 And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am
afraid because of the Jews that are fled over to
the Chaldeans: lest I should be delivered into Chapter 39
their hands, and they should abuse me.
In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in
20 But Jeremias answered: They shall not de-
the tenth month, came Nabuchodonosor king of
liver thee: hearken, I beseech thee, to the word
Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and they
of the Lord, which I speak to the, and it shall be
besieged it.
well with thee, and thy soul shall live.
2 And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the
21 But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the
word which the Lord hath shewn me: fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the
city was opened.
22 Behold all the women that are left in the
house of the king of Juda, shall be brought out to 3 And all the princes of the king of Baby-
the princes of the king of Babylon: and they shall lon came in, and sat in the middle gate:
say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rab-
have prevailed against thee, they have plunged sares, Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the rest
thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery place and of the princes of the king of Babylon.
they have departed from thee. 4 And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all
23 And all thy wives, and thy children shall the men of war saw them, they fled: and they
be brought out to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt went forth in the night out of the city by the
not escape their hands, but thou shalt be taken way of the king’s garden, and by the gate that
by the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall was between the two walls, and they went out to
burn this city with fire. the way of the desert.
24 Then Sedecias said to Jeremias: Let no 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after
man know these words, and thou shalt not die. them: and they took Sedecias in the plain of
25 But if the princes shall hear that I have the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken
spoken with thee, and shall come to thee, and him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king
say to thee: Tell us what thou hast said to the of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of
king, hide it not from us, and we will not kill Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.
thee: and also what the king said to thee: 6 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of
26 Thou shalt say to them: I presented my Sedecias, in Reblatha, before his eyes: and the
supplication before the king, that he would not king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Juda.
command me to be carried back into the house 7 He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and
of Jonathan, to die there. bound him with fetters, to be carried to Babylon.
27 So all the princes came to Jeremias, and 8 And the Chaldeans burnt the king’s house,
asked him: and he spoke to them according to and the houses of the people with fire, and they
all the words that the king had commanded him: threw down the wall of Jerusalem.
and they left him: for nothing had been heard. 9 And Nabuzardan the general of the army