Jeremiah 37:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city; they shall take it and burn it with fire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city, and they shall take it and burn it with fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

Common English Bible

⁸ The Babylonians will return and attack this city. They will capture it and burn it down.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Thus says the Lord: Do not be willing to deceive your own souls, saying: 'The Chaldeans will certainly withdraw and go away from us.' For they will not go away.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Jeremiah 37:8 Cross References

Jeremiah 21:4

“Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

Jeremiah 32:29

The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs incense has been offered to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 34:2

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 37:10

For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’ ”

Jeremiah 38:18

But if you do not surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.”

Jeremiah 38:23

All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon; and this city shall be burned with fire.”

Jeremiah 38:3

Thus says the Lord, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken.”