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Jeremiah 32:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Zedekiah, king of Judah, had confined him there, saying: “How dare you prophesy: Thus says the Lord: I am handing this city over to the king of Babylon that he may capture it.

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While he was already in distress, the same King Ahaz increased his treachery to the Lord.

The king of Egypt answered them, “Why, Moses and Aaron, do you make the people neglect their work? Off to your labors!”

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

But Jeremiah answered them: This is what you shall report to Zedekiah:

Meanwhile, the nation or the kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, or bend its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with sword, famine, and pestilence—oracle of the Lord—until I finish them by his hand.

Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his princes, I will hand also over to their enemies, to those who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon which is now withdrawing from you.

And against Jehoiakim, king of Judah, say this: Thus says the Lord: You are the one who burned that scroll, saying, “Why did you write on it: Babylon’s king shall surely come and ravage this land, emptying it of every living thing”?

At this time Jeremiah still came and went freely among the people; he had not yet been put into prison.

But if you do not surrender to the princes of Babylon’s king, this city shall fall into the hand of the Chaldeans, who shall destroy it by fire, and you shall not escape their hand.”

Thus says the Lord: This city shall certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon; he shall capture it.

Then the princes said to the king, “This man ought to be put to death. He is weakening the resolve of the soldiers left in this city and of all the people, by saying such things to them; he is not seeking the welfare of our people, but their ruin.”

and Ebed-melech went there from the house of the king and said to him,

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

The yoke of my rebellions is bound together, fastened by his hand. His yoke is upon my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into the grip of those I cannot resist.

But never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.”

and said to him, “Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Or who is the one who gave you this authority?”




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