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chapter 38
1
Now
Saphatias the son of Mathan, and Gedelias the son of Phassur, and Juchal the
son of Selemias, and Phassur the son of Melchias heard the words that Jeremias
spoke to all the people, saying:
2 Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shell remain in this
city, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence : but he that
shall go forth to the Chaldeans, shall live, and his life shall be safe, and he
shall live.
3 Thus saith the Lord: This city shall surely be
delivered into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take
it.
4 And the princes said to the king: We beseech thee
that this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the
men of war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to
them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this people,
but evil.
5 And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your hands:
for it is not lawful for the king to deny you any thing.
6 Then they took Jeremias and cast him into the dungeon
of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they
let down Jeremias by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but
mire. And Jeremias sunk into the mire.
7 Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in
the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremias in the dungeon: but the king
was sitting in the gate of Benjamin.
8 And Abdemelech went out of the king's house, and
spoke to the king, saying:
9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all
that they have done against Jeremias the prophet, casting him into the dungeon
to die there with hunger, for there is no more bread in the city.
10 Then the king commanded Abdemelech the Ethiopian,
saying: Take from hence thirty men with thee, end draw up Jeremias the prophet
out of the dungeon, before he die.
11 So Abdemelech taking the men with him, went into the
king's house that was under the storehouse: and he took from thence old rags,
and old rotten things, and he let them down by cords to Jeremias into the
dungeon.
12 And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremias: Put
these old rags and these rent and rotten things under thy arms, and upon the
cords: and Jeremias did so.
13 And they drew up Jeremias with the cords, and
brought him forth out of the dungeon. And Jeremias remained in the entry of the
prison.
14 And king Sedecias sent, and took Jeremias the
prophet to him to the third gate, that was in the house of the Lord: and the
king said to Jeremias: I will ask thee a thing, hide nothing from me.
15 Then Jeremias said to Sedecias: If I shall declare
it to thee, wilt thou not put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou
wilt not hearken to me.
16 Then king Sedecias swore to Jeremias, in private,
saying: As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to
death, nor will I deliver thee into the hands of these men that seek thy life.
17 And Jeremias said to Sedecias: Thus saith the Lord
of hosts the God of Israel: If thou wilt take a resolution and go out to the
princes of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be
burnt with fire: and thou shalt be safe, and thy house.
18 But if thou wilt not go out to the princes of the
king of Babylon, this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans,
and they shall burn it with fire: and thou shalt not escape out of their hands.
19 And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am afraid
because of the Jews that are fled over to the Chaldeans: lest I should be
delivered into their hands, and they should abuse me.
20 But Jeremias answered: They shall not deliver thee:
hearken, I beseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I speak to thee, and it
shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.
21 But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word
which the Lord hath shewn me:
22 Behold all the women that are left in the house of
the king of Juda, shall be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon:
and they shall say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and have prevailed
against thee, they have plunged thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery place,
and they have departed from thee.
23 And all thy wives, and thy children shall be brought
out to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but thou shalt be
taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall burn this city with
fire.
24 Then Sedecias said to Jeremias: Let no man know
these words, and thou shalt not die.
25 But if the princes shall hear that I have spoken
with thee, and shall come to thee, and say to thee: Tell us what thou hast said
to the king, hide it not from us, and we will not kill thee: and also what the
king said to thee:
26 Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication
before the king, that he would not command me to be carried back into the house
of Jonathan, to die there.
27 So all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him:
and he spoke to them according to all the words that the king had commanded
him: and they left him: for nothing had been heard.
28 But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison,
until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and it came to pass that Jerusalem was
taken.
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