Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.
And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders
Then all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsek
Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Bab
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in thi
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is G
Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exi
But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.