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Jeremiah 38:20-24

Jeremiah 38:20

But Jeremiah said, “They will not turn you over. Please obey the Lord in what I am saying to you, so that it may go well for you and you may live.

Jeremiah 38:21

But if you keep refusing to surrender, this is the word which the Lord has shown me:

Jeremiah 38:22

‘Behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say, “Your close friends Have misled and overpowered you; While your feet were sunk in the mire, They turned back.”

Jeremiah 38:23

They are also going to bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans, and you yourself will not escape from their hand, but will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned with fire.’ ”

Jeremiah 38:24

Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no one know about these words, and you will not die.