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chapter 37
1
Now
king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of Jechonias the son of Joakim:
whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in the land of Juda.
2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of
the land did obey the words of the Lord, that he spoke in the hand of Jeremias
the prophet.
3 And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias,
and Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias the prophet, saying:
Pray to the Lord our God for us.
4 Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people
r for they had not as yet cast him into prison. And the army of Pharao was come
out of Egypt: and the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem, hearing these tidings,
departed from Jerusalem.
5 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the
prophet, saying:
6 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Thus shall you
say to the king of Juda, who sent you to inquire of me: Behold the army of
Pharao, which is come forth to help you, shall return into their own land, into
Egypt.
7 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against
this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
8 Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying:
The Chaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go
away;
9 But if you should even beat al: the army of the
Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded
men: they shall rise up, every man from his tent, and burn this city with Are.
10 Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away
from Jerusalem, because of Pharao's army,
11 Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the
land of Benjamin: and to divide a possession there in the presence of the
citizens.
12 And when he was come to the gate of Benjamin, the
captain of the gate, who I was there in his turn, was one named Jerias, the son
of Selemias, the son of Hananias: and he took hold of Jeremias the prophet,
saying: Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans.
13 And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am not
fleeing to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took Jeremias
and brought him to the princes.
14 Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremias, and
they beat him, and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan
the scribe: for he was chief over the prison.
15 So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and
into the dungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days.
16 Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him: and asked
him secretly in his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou, any word from the
Lord? And Jeremias said: There is. And he said: Thou shalt be delivered into
the hands of the king of Babylon.
17 And Jeremias said to king Sedecias: In what have I
offended against thee, or thy servants, or thy people, that thou hast cast me
into prison?
18 Where are your prophets that prophesied to you, and
said: The king of Babylon shall not come against you, and against this land?
19 Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the
king: let my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the
house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
20 Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be
committed into the entry of the prison: and that they should give him daily a
piece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were spent: and
Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.
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