Jeremiah 37:8 - New Revised Standard Version And the Chaldeans shall return and fight against this city; they shall take it and burn it with fire. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. Common English Bible The Babylonians will return and attack this city. They will capture it and burn it down.” Catholic Public Domain Version 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 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. |
Thus you shall say to Zedekiah: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I am going to turn back the weapons of war that 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 center of this city.
The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come, set it on fire, and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and libations have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go and speak to King Zedekiah of Judah and say to him: Thus says the Lord: I am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
Even if you defeated the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men in their tents, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.
But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be handed over to the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand.”
All your wives and your children 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.”
Thus says the Lord, This city shall surely be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon and be taken.