Jeremiah 21:8-14 ▼

8 And to this people you shall say, thus says YHWH: ‘Behold, I am setting before you? the way of the life and the way of the death.

9 The one staying settled in this city will die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; and the one going out and falling away to the Chaldeans that besiege you?, and he even shall live, and his soul will be to him as a prize.

10 For I have set My face against this city for evil and not for good—a declaration of YHWH. Into the hand of the king of Babylon it will be given, and he will burn it with fire.

11 And to the house of the king of Judah: Hear the word of YHWH!

12 O house of David, thus says YHWH: ‘Judge with justice in the morning, and deliver the one plundered from the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth and burn like the fire, so that no one can quench it—because of the evil of your? deeds.

13 Behold, I am against you, a declaration of YHWH, O dweller of the valley, O rock of the plain, who say, “Who shall come down against us or who shall come into our dwellings?

14 And I will attend to you? according to the fruit of your? deeds, a declaration of YHWH, and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will devour all around it!’”