Jeremiah 21
No Deliverance from Babylon
1The LORD spoke through Jeremiah when King Zedekiah sent Pashhur son of Malkijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, to speak with him. They begged Jeremiah,
2“Please speak to the LORD for us and ask him to help us. King Nebuchadnezzar
3Jeremiah replied, “Go back to King Zedekiah and tell him,
4‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I will make your weapons useless against the king of Babylon and the Babylonians
8“Tell all the people, ‘This is what the LORD says: Take your choice of life or death! 9Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or disease, but those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians will live. Their reward will be life! 10For I have decided to bring disaster and not good upon this city, says the LORD. It will be handed over to the king of Babylon, and he will reduce it to ashes.’
Judgment on Judah’s Kings
11“Say to the royal family of Judah, ‘Listen to this message from the LORD!
12This is what the LORD says to the dynasty of David: “‘Give justice each morning to the people you judge!