1 The Word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, when King Sedekias sent to him Paschor the Son of Melchias, and Sophonias Son of Basæas, the Priest, saying, 2 Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and [the king] shall depart from us. 3 And Jeremias said to them, Thus shall ye say to Sedekias king of Juda, 4 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] turn back the weapons of war wherewith ye fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city. 5 And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger. 6 And I will smite all the dwellers in this city, [both] men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die. 7 And after this, thus saith the Lord; I will give Sedekias king of Juda, and his servants, and the people that is left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies, that seek their lives: and they shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them, and I will not have compassion upon them. 8 And thou shalt say to this people, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death. 9 He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he that goes forth to advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall be to him for a spoil, and he shall live. 10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire. 11 O house of the king of Juda, hear ye the word of the Lord. 12 O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Judge judgment in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest mine anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and there be none to quench [it]. 13 Behold, I am against thee that dwellest in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, [even against] them that say, Who shall alarm us? or who shall enter into our habitation? 14 And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
Jeremiah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Jeremiah 21 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 37:3; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 52:24; Jeremiah 38:1; 2 Kings 25:18–21
- 2 Jeremiah 37:3; Ezekiel 20:1–3; Jeremiah 37:7; Jeremiah 42:4–6; Psalm 44:1–4
- 4 Jeremiah 33:5; Jeremiah 37:8–10; Isaiah 5:5; Jeremiah 32:5; Isaiah 13:4
- 5 Isaiah 63:10; Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 32:17; Exodus 6:6; Jeremiah 6:12
- 6 Ezekiel 14:19; Jeremiah 12:3–4; Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 14:17; Jeremiah 33:12
- 7 Jeremiah 37:17; Habakkuk 1:6–10; 2 Kings 25:5–7; Ezekiel 7:9; Ezekiel 17:20–21
- 8 Deuteronomy 30:19; Deuteronomy 30:15; Deuteronomy 11:26; Isaiah 1:19–20
- 9 Jeremiah 38:2; Jeremiah 45:5; Jeremiah 39:18; Jeremiah 14:12; Jeremiah 38:17–23
- 10 Jeremiah 44:11; Amos 9:4; Jeremiah 44:27; Ezekiel 15:7; Jeremiah 52:13
- 11 Jeremiah 17:20; Micah 3:1; Jeremiah 13:18
- 12 Isaiah 1:17; Proverbs 31:8–9; Jeremiah 4:4; Isaiah 1:31; Zechariah 7:9–11
- 13 Lamentations 4:12; Obadiah 3–4; Ezekiel 13:8; Psalm 125:2; Jeremiah 49:4–5
- 14 Isaiah 3:10–11; Proverbs 1:31; Jeremiah 32:19; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 17:10
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