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Zedekiah sent them to Jeremiah to ask, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Please ask the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> to come and help us, because King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is attacking us. Maybe the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> will perform one of his miracles as in times past and make him stop attacking us and leave.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jeremiah answered them, “Tell Zedekiah <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>that the <span class="smallcaps">Lord,</span> the God of Israel, says, ‘The forces at your disposal are now outside the walls fighting against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonians who have you under siege. I will gather those forces back inside the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In anger, in fury, and in wrath I myself will fight against you with my mighty power and great strength! <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, promise that I will hand over King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and any of the people who survive the war, starvation, and disease. I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will slaughter them with the sword. He will not show them any mercy, compassion, or pity.’</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“But tell the people of Jerusalem that the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says, ‘I will give you a choice between two courses of action. One will result in life; the other will result in death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians who are besieging it will live. They will escape with their lives. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, say that I am determined not to deliver this city but to bring disaster on it. It will be handed over to the king of Babylon and he will destroy it with fire.’”</p> <p class="title">Warnings to the Royal Court</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> told me to say to the royal court of Judah,</p><p class="poetry2">“Listen to what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>O royal family descended from David.</p><p class="poetry2">The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says:</p><p class="poetry2">‘See to it that people each day are judged fairly.</p><p class="poetry2">Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them.</p><p class="poetry2">Otherwise, my wrath will blaze out against you.</p><p class="poetry2">It will burn like a fire that cannot be put out</p><p class="poetry2">because of the evil that you have done.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Listen, you who sit enthroned above the valley on a rocky plateau.</p><p class="poetry2">I am opposed to you,’ says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.</p><p class="poetry2">‘You boast, “No one can swoop down on us.</p><p class="poetry2">No one can penetrate into our places of refuge.”</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’</p><p class="poetry2">says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.</p><p class="poetry2">‘I will set fire to your palace;</p><p class="poetry2">it will burn up everything around it.’”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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