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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 21 Lamsa Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Lamsa</a> > Jeremiah 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/20.htm" title="Jeremiah 20">◄</a> Jeremiah 21 <a href="../jeremiah/22.htm" title="Jeremiah 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>THE word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah and Zephaniah the son of Maasiah, the priests, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Enquire of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, and cause the enemy to withdraw from us.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Then said Jeremiah to them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah: <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Behold, I will destroy the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the city, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>And I myself will fight against you with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, even in anger and in great wrath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>And in great wrath will I smite the inhabitants of this city, both men and beasts; they shall die of a great pestilence. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants and the people that are left in this city, from the sword and from the pestilence and from the famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; and he shall not spare them, neither have pity nor have mercy upon them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And to this people you shall say, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>He who abides in this city shall die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you, he shall live, and he shall save his life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good, says the LORD; it shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear the word of the LORD, O house of David; thus says the LORD:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O you who are hidden below the plain, says the LORD, who say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD, and I will kindle a fire in its villages, and it shall devour all things round about it.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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