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Jeremiah 32:3

Good News Translation

King Zedekiah had imprisoned me there and had accused me of announcing that the Lord had said, “I am going to let the king of Babylonia capture this city,

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When his troubles were at their worst, that man Ahaz sinned against the Lord more than ever.

The king said to Moses and Aaron, “What do you mean by making the people neglect their work? Get those slaves back to work!

I punished you, but it did no good; you would not let me correct you. Like a raging lion, you have murdered your prophets.

Then the Lord spoke to me, and I told those who had been sent to me

“But if any nation or kingdom will not submit to his rule, then I will punish that nation by war, starvation, and disease until I have let Nebuchadnezzar destroy it completely.

I will also hand over King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials to those who want to kill them. I will hand them over to the Babylonian army, which has stopped its attack against you.

The Lord told me to say to the king, “You have burned the scroll, and you have asked Jeremiah why he wrote that the king of Babylonia would come and destroy this land and kill its people and its animals.

I had not yet been put in prison and was still moving about freely among the people.

But if you do not surrender, then this city will be handed over to the Babylonians, who will burn it down, and you will not escape from them.”

I was also telling them that the Lord had said, “I am going to give the city to the Babylonian army, and they will capture it.”

Then the officials went to the king and said, “This man must be put to death. By talking like this he is making the soldiers in the city lose their courage, and he is doing the same thing to everyone else left in the city. He is not trying to help the people; he only wants to hurt them.”

So Ebedmelech went there and said to the king,

Surely the Lord looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention; he crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.

“He took note of all my sins and tied them all together; He hung them around my neck, and I grew weak beneath the weight. The Lord gave me to my foes, and I was helpless against them.

Don't prophesy here at Bethel any more. This is the king's place of worship, the national temple.”

and said to him, “Tell us, what right do you have to do these things? Who gave you such right?”




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